Léger is best known for the acclaimed novel God Loves Haiti (2015), which the New York Times praised as "a powerful portrait of a nation in peril and the citizens who inhabit it."

[7] The New York Observer hailed Léger as an “important new voice.” The newspaper noted the book's “peppery Port-au-Prince slang and untranslated French phrases” in a “melodic and unpredictable debut.”[5] The New Yorker magazine noted “Léger writes with fabulist exuberance and an eye for the absurd.”[6] In the New York Times Book Review, critic Regina Marler offered a similar assessment of the novel's “uneasy tone” that is "satirical-romantic, tragicomic, cynical-sentimental.

In Léger’s narrative landscape, Inferno, Purgatario, Paradiso are collapsed onto each other in a heap of dust and rubble.

Yet in the hellish expanses of destruction Léger manages to uncover shards of redemptive beauty and even a medieval plot twist: his eventual solution to the love triangle is far more Beatrice than Beyoncé.

He studied international development in the mid-career masters in public administration program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government.