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

Mama\u27s Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation

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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

Behind the Mountains

Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1082/thumbnail.jp

Edwidge Danticat, 38th Annual ODU Literary Festival

A powerful and widely celebrated voice in contemporary fiction, Haitian American bestselling author and social activist Edwidge Danticat has written 10 books and has received numerous awards and honors. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was selected for Oprah\u27s Book Club and led to Danticat\u27s recognition, at 25, as a shining new literary talent. Her newest book, Claire of the Sea Light, was published in 2013 to 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? Krakl, a National Book Award finalist; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. Danticat received a MacArthur Genius Grant” and has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times and elsewhere

Breath, Eyes, Memory

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1087/thumbnail.jp

Untwine

Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone\u27s world is shattered forever.https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/dlpp_all/1402/thumbnail.jp

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).