This introduction provides biographical details about Fignolé as well a presentation of the novel and it’s plot and key themes. It argues that Quiet Dawn is one of the very few contemporary works of Haitian prose fiction to grapple explicitly with Haiti’s revolution, it pushes forcefully against the silences and silencings of Haiti’s past. It contextualizes the work within the Spiralist literary movement, and emphasizes the ways in which the novel deals with questions of gender and family in a unique way.