Chicago, USA

Chicago, the third-largest city in the United States, is a bold, gutsy city full of fascinating history, architecture and culture. Incidentally, the first settler in Chicago was also a Haitian, Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, who arrived in the 1770s, married a Potawatomi woman and founded the area's first trading post. Some three hundred years later, another Haitian arrives... Laure St Lazâre...

Extract from Bitter Chocolate:

     A few hours later she boarded another flight that took her north, to Chicago. Belle was not at the airport to meet her. She had the address; in her halting, schoolgirl English, she found a taxi driver who seemed to know where 76 N. Keeler might be. If anything, the drive from the airport through the wintry, powdery streets of the biggest city she'd ever seen in her life was even more terrifying that the flight. Chicago appeared to be nothing more than shiny tongues of concrete carrying more cars than she’d known existed. She leaned back in the seat and tried not to think.