This is the story of Sophie Caco, the daughter of a Haitian exile, conceived in an act of violence. When Sophie is 12, her mother--who had abandoned her--asks the girl to join her in New York.
From the bestselling author of "The Dew Breaker" comes a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to the author's heart--her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
From the universally acclaimed author of "Breath, Eyes, Memory" comes a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
This is the fictional journal of 13-year-old Celiane as she and her family immigrate from Haiti to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, where Celiane must adapt to a new, and often confusing, life.
In Homelands, writers investigate the complexities of how women experience, remember, and imagine journeys to their homelands. Approaching the topic from varying perspectives exile, longing, belonging, diaspora, idealization they show that "homeland" isn't just a physical place. It can also be an imagined community, a part of one's identity, ...
Bestselling author Danticat journeys to her homeland of Haiti, where she participates in the spectacular Carnival of Jacmel. She also explores the beauty and unceasing conflict that make up the island's unique, dual nature.
The true-life experiences told here by 38 Haitian women from different social strata record the human rights abuses they endured, and their efforts to transcend those experiences.
In this collection of 33 essays and poems, the experience of the Haitian emigre is described, with the works divided into four sections: childhood, migration, first generation, and return. Each author hauntingly describes their lives in Haiti and the United States.
It is 1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homeland. The Republic, under the iron rule of the Generalissimo, treats the Haitians as second-class citizens, and although Amabelle feels a strong sense of loyalty to her employers, especially since ...
This multicultural anthology of 26 pieces seeks to represent work by writers of all colors and cultures. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are all represented, including work by Larry MacMurty, Pico Iver, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and others.
"Memoir of an Amnesiac is a work of several dimensions; memoir, novel, roman clef. In one facet it is as especially privileged and personal view of the Haitian journalist Jean Dominique, redoutable until his assassination in the year 2000. In another, it is a sophisticated study of the paradoxal relationship between memory and fabrication. In a ...
A work of fiction, most of "Vale of Tears" takes place in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where the book's protagonist, Coralie, is trying to scrounge up enough money during the New Year holiday to pay her rent. Part of the book is set in France, where Coralie spent part of World War 2. Through 14 chapters that alternate between the present ...
In After the Dance, one of Haiti's most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its deep heart. Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too ...
This multicultural anthology of 26 pieces seeks to represent work by writers of all colors and cultures. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction are all represented, including work by Larry MacMurty, Pico Iver, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and others.
Set in Haiti's impoverished villages and in New York's Haitian community, this is the story of Sophie Caco, who was conceived in an act of violence, abandoned by her mother and then summoned to America. In New York, Sophie discovers that Haiti imposes harsh rules on its own. (OneSource)
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