Diane Lavoie

Diane Lavoie: Alarms went off around the world as doctors and rescue teams donated their expertise and extra-special care. But the disaster also gave rise to a subgroup of unprepared and often ill-equipped responders in Quebec: the families that had been waiting to adopt a Haitian orphan suddenly called into urgent service, according to The Star. Her 176-page memoir is titled , a play on the French term for earthquake tremblement de terre . The Radio-Canada costume designer and first-time author recounts her first year with 3-year-old M lodine a pseudonym . The story peaks with Lavoie sitting on a rock, her feet planted in an icy river, contemplating the frigid water entering her lungs and ending her life and MONTREAL The Haiti earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010, caused the capital, Port-au-Prince, to crumble to the ground and wreaked havoc on an already vulnerable population. There were 172 Haitian orphans spirited to Canada to be united with their new families in 2010, most in the weeks after the deadly quake. Diane Lavoie was, as she writes in a new book, the least prepared mother in all the history of adoption. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.