Creative Book Tour Sign Ups: When the Mapou Sings by Nadine Pineda 🌸 🌺

October 28, 2024

Hi everyone! Are you ready to see our next tour sign-ups?

We are so excited to be able to bring you a Creative Book Tour for When the Mapou Sings, written by Nadine Pinede! Out on 3rd December by Candlewick Press. The tour will run from 3rd to 9th December and we're looking for around 10+ book influencers to help us promote this book.

WHEN THE MAPOU SINGS is a novel in verse about a 16-year-old girl named Lucille who dreams of opening a school in 1930s Haiti. Infused with magical realism, this story blends first love and political intrigue with a quest for justice and self-determination.

This tour is open internationally to book influencers who can share a creative post like a reel, a TikTok, or a blog post and share their thoughts on the book.

Digital copies will be available for all tour hosts while physical copies will be available for US and CAN-based tour hosts.

Scroll down to learn more about the book and sign up for this tour!

Here's another sneak peek at the cover:

Sixteen-year-old Lucille hopes to one day open a school alongside her best friend where girls just like them can learn what it means to be Haitian: to learn from the mountains and the forests around them, to carve, to sew, to draw, and to sing the songs of the Mapou, the sacred trees that dot the island nation. But when her friend vanishes without a trace, a dream—a gift from the Mapou—tells Lucille to go to her village’s section chief, the local face of law, order, and corruption, which puts her life and her family’s at risk.

Forced to flee her home, Lucille takes a servant post with a wealthy Haitian woman from society’s elite in Port-au-Prince. Despite a warning to avoid him, she falls in love with her employer’s son. But when their relationship is found out, she must leave again—this time banished to another city to work for a visiting American writer and academic conducting fieldwork in Haiti.

While Lucille’s new employer studies vodou and works on the novel that will become Their Eyes Were Watching God, Lucille risks losing everything she cares about—and any chance of seeing her best friend again—as she fights to save their lives and secure her future in this novel in verse with the racing heart of a thriller.

Thank you for signing up for our tours! However, please keep in mind that signing up does not guarantee you a spot on the tour since copies are very limited. We always consider both small and big accounts that love to read and engage with the book community.

All the best,

Colored Pages Team

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