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Authors: Edwidge Danticat
ISBN-13: 9780679766575, ISBN-10: 067976657X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: April 1996
Edition: ~

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Author Biography: Edwidge Danticat

Since the publication of her debut work Breath, Eyes, Memory in 1994, Edwidge Danticat has won praise as one of America's brightest, most graceful and vibrant young writers.  In this novel, and in her National Book Award-nominated collection of stories, Krik? Krak!, Danticat evokes the powerful imagination and rich narrative tradition of her native Haiti, and in the process records the suffering, triumphs, and wisdom of its people.  Author Paule Marshall has said of Danticat, "A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice."



Born in Haiti in 1969, Danticat, like the protagonist of her novel Breath, Eyes, Memory, at the age of twelve left her birthplace for New York to reunite with her parents.  She earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University.  More recently, she has received an ongoing grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation.



Critical acclaim and awards for her first novel included a Granta Regional Award for the Best Young American Novelists, a Pushcart Prize and fiction awards from Essence and Seventeen magazines.  She was chosen by Harper's Bazaar as one of 20 people in their twenties who will make a difference, and was featured in a New York Times Magazine article that named "30 Under 30" creative people to watch.  This winter, Jane magazine named her one of the "15 Gutsiest Women of the Year."



Danticat's second novel, The Farming of Bones, based upon the 1937 massacre of Haitians at the border of the Dominican Republic, will be published in September 1998 by Soho Press.

Book Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Nine stories describe life under dictatorship in Haiti and the experiences of families who fled to the United States to start new lives.

Black College Today - Walter Mosley

Edwidge Danticat's strong and unique voice speaks in the language of hearts. She knows the dreams and hidden thoughts of her characters, and her readers. She takes us traveling down a river of blood. That river sings in our veins.

Table of Contents

1Children of the Sea1
2Nineteen Thirty-Seven31
3A Wall of Fire Rising51
4Night Women81
5Between the Pool and the Gardenias89
6The Missing Peace101
7Seeing Things Simply123
8New York Day Women143
9Caroline's Wedding155
Epilogue: Women Like Us217

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