Summary

In "Ma Lou," it was November 2014 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ma Lou remembered her mother repeating the words "I have no bones" when she was old and sick (3). In the days before her death, Ma Lou visited her. She repeated the same line over and over.

For years after the earthquake, Ma Lou considered "going to Saut d'Eau" to bury her mother’s bones (5). Her husband Lou often talked about Saut d'Eau’s myths. Because Ma Lou was a Catholic, she never went. She had difficulty believing "in gods that would punish the helpless" (6). She thought of the people who died during the earthquake, including her "own son, Richard" and the neighbor boy, Jonas, and (7).

Jonas's sisters were "crushed beneath a house,” and Jonas died from injuries (8). His mother, Sara, lived alone afterwards. As for Richard, Ma Lou had not had a relationship with...