Eakins's novel, published May 1999 by NYU Press,
elicited strong reviews, as well as a study guide for book clubs.
If you'd like to buy it, see the info and links on our Fabularetail page.
You can read and, if you wish, join an online forum on the novel.
The book's title page reads as follows:

The Marvelous Adventures of
Pierre Baptiste
Father and Mother
First and Last

Including:

The Tribulations of Bondage in the Sugar Isles
Pierre's Escape From Certain Harm to His Person
How He Was Marooned
His Friends & Religion
His True Wife & Alluring Consorts
His Children, Born of Strangeness
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Physics and Metaphysics
Cyclopedish Histoire
Flora, Fauna, & Mysteriosi
Revenge and Devotion
Divinations
Commonplace Book

Being a True Account of the Life and Times of an African Man of Letters,
A Son of Guinée Born into Bondage,
Whose Ambitions Were Realized in UNEXPECTED WAYS,
Yet Who Made His PEACE with Several Gods
and Established A REALM of Equality & Freedom & Bounty,
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In Which No Creature Lives from Another's Labor.

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Copyright © 1997 by Patricia Eakins.

You can read an excerpt from Pierre Baptiste if you wish, or you can hear the author reading part of the title, in low-fi or hi-fi. A percentage of the royalties from Eakins's The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste, Father & Mother, First & Last go to the Lambi Fund, a foundation that raises money for small-scale, high-impact projects proposed by peasant and women's organizations in Haiti.