A Girl Named Lovely: One Child's Miraculous Survival And My Journey To The Heart Of Haiti

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An insightful and uplifting memoir about a young Haitian girl in post-earthquake Haiti, and the profound, life-changing effect she had on one journalist's life.

In January 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of thousands of people and paralyzing the country. Catherine Porter, a newly minted international reporter, was on the ground in the immediate aftermath. Moments after she arrived in Haiti, Catherine found her first story. A ragtag group of volunteers told her about a “miracle child”—a two-year-old girl who had survived six days under the rubble and emerged virtually unscathed.

Catherine found the girl the next day. Her family was a mystery; her future uncertain. Her name was Lovely. She seemed a symbol of Haiti—both hopeful and despairing.

When Catherine learned that Lovely had been reunited with her family, she did what any journalist would do and followed the story. The cardinal rule of journalism is to remain objective and not become personally involved in the stories you report. But Catherine broke that rule on the last day of her second trip to Haiti. That day, Catherine made the simple decision to enroll Lovely in school, and to pay for it with money she and her readers donated.

Over the next five years, Catherine would visit Lovely and her family seventeen times, while also reporting on the country’s struggles to harness the international rush of aid. Each trip, Catherine's relationship with Lovely and her family became more involved and more complicated. Trying to balance her instincts as a mother and a journalist, and increasingly conscious of the costs involved, Catherine found herself struggling to align her worldview with the realities of Haiti after the earthquake. Although her dual roles as donor and journalist were constantly at odds, as one piled up expectations and the other documented failures, a third role had emerged and quietly become the most important: that of a friend.

A Girl Named Lovely is about the reverberations of a single decision—in Lovely’s life and in Catherine’s. It recounts a journalist’s voyage into the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, hit by the greatest natural disaster in modern history, and the fraught, messy realities of international aid. It is about hope, kindness, heartbreak, and the modest but meaningful difference one person can make.

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  • 001 GirlNamedLovely Open

    Duração: 17s
  • 002 GirlNamedLovely Dedication

  • 003 GirlNamedLovely Prologue

    Duração: 02min
  • 004 GirlNamedLovely Pt1 Ch1

    Duração: 57min
  • 005 GirlNamedLovely Ch2

    Duração: 26min
  • 006 GirlNamedLovely Ch3

    Duração: 55min
  • 007 GirlNamedLovely Ch4

    Duração: 25min
  • 008 GirlNamedLovely Ch5

    Duração: 39min
  • 009 GirlNamedLovely Ch6

    Duração: 49min
  • 010 GirlNamedLovely Pt2 Ch7

    Duração: 41min
  • 011 GirlNamedLovely Ch8

    Duração: 34min
  • 012 GirlNamedLovely Ch9

    Duração: 33min
  • 013 GirlNamedLovely Ch10

    Duração: 32min
  • 014 GirlNamedLovely Pt3 Ch11

    Duração: 37min
  • 015 GirlNamedLovely Ch12

    Duração: 44min
  • 016 GirlNamedLovely Ch13

    Duração: 36min
  • 017 GirlNamedLovely Ch14

    Duração: 45min
  • 018 GirlNamedLovely Epilogue

    Duração: 07min
  • 019 GirlNamedLovely Close

    Duração: 33s