The Tenacity of Hope is a memoir that tells the story of how a mother and daughter were let down by the Haitian justice system when they needed it the most. It's about poverty and violence, rape and childhood abuse, disappointment and desperation. Most of all, it's about hope. The story follows my mother, Marie-Micheline Dantica, through being abandoned as a baby, becoming pregnant as a teenager, having the father of her baby turn his back on her, and being mercilessly abused by the man she subsequently married a man who went on to sexually abuse me from the time I was just six years old....