Krik? Krak!

Ten stories on life in Haiti. In A Wall of Fire Rising, an unemployed worker dreams of escaping to America in a balloon, while in Caroline\u27s Wedding, a woman gives her daughters red underwear to wear as protection from sexual advances by the spirit of their dead father.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1086/thumbnail.jp

The Farming of Bones: A Novel

It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastian, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle\u27s world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastian are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1085/thumbnail.jp

Claire of the Sea Light

Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea Light—is an enchanting child born into love and tragedy in Ville Rose, Haiti. Claire’s mother died in childbirth, and on each of her birthdays Claire is taken by her father, Nozias, to visit her mother’s grave. Nozias wonders if he should give away his young daughter to a local shopkeeper, who lost a child of her own, so that Claire can have a better life.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1078/thumbnail.jp

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat\u27s The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses, Danticat notes in her introduction. I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing. The book moves outward from the shock of her mother\u27s diagnosis and sifts through Danticat\u27s writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel GarcIa MArquez\u27s One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison\u27s Sula. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat\u27s mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1581/thumbnail.jp

Making Art in Cities of Exile

World-renowned poet Edwidge Danticat gives a lecture on how one\u27s exile experiences can shape their creative oeuvre.Lecture held at the Graham Center, Modesto Maidique Campus, Florida International University on February 11, 2013

Haití: Una experiencia de dos culturas

Edwidge Danticat (1969-), Haitian author of Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Pushcart Award (1995), and The Farming of the Bones (1999), American Book Award (1999).

After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti

The author returns to her native land to describe Jacmel, Haiti, in the week leading up to Carnival, in a series of essays that capture the cultural magic, music, and madness of Carnival.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1084/thumbnail.jp

Edwidge Danticat: MacArthur Fellow and Acclaimed Haitian-American Writer

Edwidge Danticat, MacArthur Fellow acclaimed Haitian writer and social activist, author of Brother, I\u27m Dying and Claire of the A powerful and widely celebrated voice in contemporary fiction, Haitian American bestselling author and social activist has written 10 books and has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Story Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Edwidge Danticat published her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, at the age of 25. The book was selected for Oprah\u27s Book Club and was immediately recognized by readers and critics alike as heralding the emergence of a shining new literary talent. Danticat\u27s profound connection to her native Haiti has not only informed her literary output, but has made her a powerful and passionate advocate. Her newest book, Claire of the Sea Light, is a stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl has gone missing. It was published in 2013, to much critical acclaim. Previous works include Brother, I\u27m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and was a National Book Award finalist; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. Danticat has also received the MacArthur Genius Grant and been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere