{"id":24,"date":"2025-09-27T15:52:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:16:07","slug":"witness-in-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Witness in the Dust Description"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Description of the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Witness in the Dust<\/em>&nbsp;is a novel about a young Haitian woman\u2019s resilience, faith, and the unbreakable human spirit in a democracy torn apart by moral struggles. When earthquakes and hurricanes devastate Port-au-Prince, Celine, full of idealism, faith, and quiet strength, seeks a better life in the United States. Celine travels to Chicago, where she joins fellow immigrants fighting for dignity in a system that is unwelcoming to them. Drawing on resources from her community and church, she becomes a witness and advocate for justice. Before she can claim her place in the promised land, she must reconcile her beliefs about equality, democracy, citizenship, and the promises of sanctuary for people yearning to breathe free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The novel is a work of political fiction that sketches a vision of the enduring strength of an immigrant community, a church fighting for justice, and the unyielding spirit of those who refuse to be broken. Lyrical and analytical, the novel explores equality, democracy, ideological divisions, and whether reconciliation is possible in a world coated in the dust of decaying promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Witness in the Dust<\/em>&nbsp;sheds light on a democracy that is in decay. The plot exposes an overly aggressive immigration enforcement policy and America\u2019s failure to keep its promises to some cultural groups who seek opportunities in the \u201cland of the free.\u201d The novel presents a vision for what can happen when diverse communities, the Church, and resilient individuals stand in solidarity with their neighbors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description of the Book Witness in the Dust&nbsp;is a novel about a young Haitian woman\u2019s resilience, faith, and the unbreakable human spirit in a democracy torn apart by moral struggles. When earthquakes and hurricanes devastate Port-au-Prince, Celine, full of idealism, faith, and quiet strength, seeks a better life in the United States. Celine travels to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","9":"with-featured-image"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Young-Celine-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Young-Celine-600x600.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Lorrie Reed","author_link":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/?author=3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/witnessinthedust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}