The Haitian diaspora numbers well over a million and a half, concentrated in the United States — New York, Miami, Boston — and in Canada, France and the Dominican Republic, and the religion moved with it. Practice adapts to circumstances: ceremonies in basements and apartments, drums muffled or replaced by recordings to avoid complaints and police attention, animal offerings arranged within the limits of local law, and altars assembled from what is available in botánicas that also serve Cuban and Puerto Rican customers. Initiations frequently require a trip to Haiti, and money flows home continually for ceremonies the family holds there. Karen McCarthy Brown's Mama Lola, following a manbo in Brooklyn across more than a decade, documents the adaptation in detail — including the specific problem of maintaining obligations to lwa and ancestors located a thousand miles away.