The author Jean Chery was born in May 15,1983. In this memoir, Jean Chery told the story of his childhood when he was a kid in his country Haiti. The Life Apart told his youth life story as a young boy with his relatives as his family. In this book The Life Apart, he narrated his details of his life when he was a kid with his family while he was living in his country. The author discussed his childhood life in his book.