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Linda Leith Publishing / The Walrus Dany Laferrière remembers the confusion he caused among locals after landing in Montreal in 1976. “They didn’t understand,” explains the Haitian-born author in Working in the Bathtub, a new book of interviews, “how someone who worked in a factory, who was black, an immigrant, from an extremely poor country like Haiti, could want to be a writer.” What happened next may well have puzzled Laferrière’s neighbours even more. His 1985 debut, How to ...