Edwidge Danticat, Author . Crown Journeys $16 (160p) ISBN 978-0-609-60908-8
Twenty years after emigrating to America, Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory) returns to her native Haiti and the coastal village of Jacmel to take part in her first Carnival. But she's not without reservations. As a child she was forbidden to...
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Edwidge Danticat, Author . Scholastic/Orchard $16.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-439-37299-2
Launching the First Person Fiction series of immigrant coming-of-age stories, Danticat's (Breath, Eyes, Memory, for adults) debut novel for young people follows Celiane's journey from her mountain village in Haiti to join her father in...
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Edwidge Danticat, Author . Knopf $22 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4114-5
Haitian-born Danticat's third novel (after The Farming of Bones
and Breath, Eyes, Memory
) focuses on the lives affected by a "dew breaker," or torturer of Haitian dissidents under Duvalier's regime. Each chapter reveals the titular
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Edwidge Danticat, Author . Scholastic $6.99 (166p) ISBN 978-0-439-37300-5
In this novel, part of the First Person Fiction series, 13-year-old Celiane recounts her journey from her mountain village in Haiti to join her father in Brooklyn in a "charming, innocent voice," according to PW
. Ages 11-15. (Feb.)
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Edwidge Danticat, Author . Knopf $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4115-2
In a single day in 2004, Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory
; The Farming of Bones
) learns that she’s pregnant and that her father, André, is dying—a stirring constellation of events that frames this Haitian immigrant family’s...
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Edwidge Danticat, Author , read by Robin Miles. Recorded Books $34.99 (
, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $34.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4281-6628-8
, unabridged, seven CDs, 8 hrs., $34.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4281-6628-8
Dandicat's moving memoir focuses on her Uncle Joseph, who raised her in Haiti, and her father, who was reunited with her in the United States when she was 12. Robin Miles brings the two brothers to life. Portraying Dandicat's father, Mira, as soft-sp
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Edwidge Danticat, Princeton Univ., $19.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-691-14018-6
“In order to shield our shattered collective psyche from a long history of setbacks and disillusionment... we cultivate communal and historical amnesia...,” writes novelist Danticat in this lean collection of jaw-breaking horrors side by side with...
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Edwidge Danticat, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-76657-5
Danticat's collection of stories detailing daily life under dictatorship in Haiti was a finalist for the National Book Award. (Apr.)
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Edwidge Danticat, Author Soho Press $20 (227p) ISBN 978-1-56947-025-1
Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted
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Edwidge Danticat, Author Soho Press $23 (312p) ISBN 978-1-56947-126-5
The almost dreamlike pace of Danticat's second novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory, 1994) and the measured narration by the protagonist, Amabelle Desir, at first give no indication that this will be a story of furious violence and nearly unbearable loss....
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Edwidge Danticat, Author Soho Press $20 (234p) ISBN 978-1-56947-005-3
A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel about a young girl's coming of age under difficult circumstances. ``I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place...
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Edwidge Danticat. Knopf, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-27179-2
In this gorgeous, arresting, and profoundly vivid new novel, Danticat once again tells a story that feels as mysterious and magical as a folk tale and as effective and devastating as a newsreel. Claire Limyè Lanmè (“Claire of the Sea Light”) is...
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Edwidge Danticat. Scholastic Press, $16.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-545-42303-8
Giselle, an art lover, and Isabelle, a budding composer, are 16-year-old Haitian-American twins living in Miami. After the SUV carrying the girls and their recently separated parents is hit, Giselle’s world unravels. Danticat (Krik? Krak!) vividly...
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Edwidge Danticat, illus. by Alix Delinois, Scholastic/Orchard, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-545-27849-2
Haitian-born author Danticat (Behind the Mountains) offers an uplifting story, told in the ingenuous voice of Junior, a boy pulled from the rubble of his former home eight days after the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince in January 2010....
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Edwidge Danticat, illus. by Leslie Staub. Dial, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-525-42809-1
Danticat tells a serious yet hopeful story about a child whose Haitian mother is in an immigration detention center. Saya, whose hair is done up in tight braids with beads, visits her mother weekly but misses her terribly; she finds comfort in the...
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Edwidge Danticat. Graywolf, $14 trade paper (200p) ISBN 978-1-55597-777-1
In the latest installment of Graywolf’s the Art Of series, Danticat (Claire of the Sea Light) tackles a complex subject that reverberates throughout her award-winning fiction. She seeks to “both better understand death and offload [her] fear of it”...
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Edwidge Danticat. Knopf, $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-525-52127-3
Families fracture and reform in Danticat’s outstanding and deeply memorable story collection. Set among the Haitian “dyaspora” including Miami, New York, and Haiti itself, the tales describe the complicated lives of people who live in one place but...
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Edwidge Danticat, illus. by Shannon Wright. Roaring Brook, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-250-14091-3
The narrator, a brown-skinned girl, defines “Mommy Medicine” as a special brand of TLC—a combination of pampering and playfulness that her mother offers “whenever I am sick or just feel kind of gloomy or sad.” Mommy’s indomitable energy and toolkit...
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