A TIME Best Book of April Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature “Chancy is one of our most brilliant writers and storytellers.”—Edwidge Danticat “Myriam J. A. Chancy is a masterful writer.”—José Olivarez From award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy comes an extraordinary and enduring story of two families—forever joined by country, and by long-held secrets—and two girls with a bond that refuses to be broken. In 1940s’ Port-au-Prince, Gertie and Sisi become fast childhood friends, despite being on opposite ends of the social and economic ladder. As young girls, they build their unlikely friendship—until a deathbed revelation ripples through their families and tears them apart. After François Duvalier’s rule turns deadly in the 1950s, Sisi moves to Paris, while Gertie marries into a wealthy Dominican family. Across decades and continents, through personal success and failures, they are parted and reunited, slowly learning the truth of their singular relationship. Finally, six decades later, with both women in the United States, a sudden phone call brings them back together once more to reckon with and—perhaps—forgive the past. Told with power and frankness, Village Weavers confronts the silences around class, race, and nationality, charts the moments when lives are irrevocably forced apart, and envisions two girls—connected their entire lives—who try to break inherited cycles of mistrust and find ways back into each other’s hearts.Village Weavers | Powell's Books Village Weavers. By Myriam Ja Chancy. Cover for Village Weavers by Myriam Ja Chancy. $17.95. New. Trade Paperback. Add To Basket Village Weavers (Hardcover) | Books & Books A deeply reflective book about the resilience of the relationship between two women, which evolves from an innocent childhood friendship to a . Village Weavers (Hardcover) | Nowhere Bookshop Evocative and reflective, Village Weavers is focused on friendship, family and the circumstances that can tear us apart—and bring us back . Village Weavers - Enchanted Prose This gorgeously written story takes a long view on the relationship between two different friends from two different families in the context of Haitian society. Pete Seeger's music and legacy celebrated in documentary Village. By the time he was 18, he was working as a session musician . Weavers. In addition to popularizing the Woody Guthrie classic .