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Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Fiction
Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, with new introduction from Booker-prize-winning Bernardine Evaristo. An Oprah Book Club selection 'A vision of female solidarity which transcends place and time' Sunday Times 'A novel that rewards the reader again and again with small but exquisite and unforget ...Show more
Breath, Eyes, Memory by DANTICAT EDWIDGE
Category: Fiction
When her mother leaves Haiti to find work in the US, Sophie is raised by her aunt. Their parting, years later, when her mother sends for her, is as wrenching as the reunion in New York. Though she barely knows her mother they both carry secrets from their homeland that will haunt them forever.
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Biography
From the age of four, Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph, a charismatic pastor, as her 'second father', when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for a better life in America. Listening to his sermons, sharing coconut-flavored ices on their walks through town, roaming ...Show more
Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Biography Memoir
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she joined her parents and youngest brothers in New Yor ...Show more
CREATE DANGEROUSLY - THE IMMIGRANT ARTIST AT WORK by EDWIDGE DANTICAT
Category: Fiction | Series: Toni Morrison Lecture Series
'Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part, that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them' - "Create Dangerously". In this deeply personal boo ...Show more
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Fiction
Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople search by moonlight for the seven-year-old girl, each ...Show more
Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Fiction
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.AUGUST 2020 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE STORY PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2020 VILCEK PRIZE IN LITERATU ...Show more
Everything Inside - Stories by Edwidge Danticat
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE One of the Best Books of the Year NPR, Time, Esquire, BuzzFeed, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Haunting, profound--an answered prayer for those who have long treasured Danticat's] essential contributions to the Caribbean literary canon." --O, The O ...Show more
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin; Edwidge Danticat (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays a fourteen-year-old bo ...Show more
HAITI NOIR by EDWIDGE DANTICAT
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Haiti has had a tragic history and continues to be on of the most destitute places on the planet, especially in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake. Here, however, editor Edwidge Danticat reveals that even while the subject matter remains dark, the calibre of Haitian writing is of the highe ...Show more