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  • Dèy

    A Novel

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence one sunny Florida day.“Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?” These questions haunt Magnolia, a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Brother, I'm Dying

    National Book Award Finalist

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    **Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • In this powerful work of nonfiction that takes up immigration and the strength of family, Edwidge Danticat tells the story of her beloved father and uncle – how her father came to the US; and how his brother later died at the hands of the Department of Homeland Security while he pleaded asylum trying to escape untenable violence at home.A ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Untwine

    A Novel

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    "A genuinely moving exploration of the pain of separation" from the New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist ( The New York Times Book Review).NAACP Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work2015 VOYA Magazine Perfect TenCCBC Choices List SelectionBank Street College of Education Best Children's Books of the Year, 2016New Yo... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Breath, Eyes, Memory

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Claire of the Sea Light

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    From the national bestselling author of Brother, I’m Dying and The Dew Breaker: a “fiercely beautiful” novel (Los Angeles Times) that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè—Claire of the Sea ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Farming of Bones

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, the babies' skin color, not to mention which child is to survive--reverberates throughout Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. In fact, rather than a celebration of fecundity ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Create Dangerously

    The Immigrant Artist at Work

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series The Toni Morrison Lecture Series
    A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards—now with a new preface by the author"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Haiti Noir 2

    The Classics

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    Stories of crime and corruption set in this Caribbean country by Edwidge Danticat, Roxane Gay, Dany Laferrière, and more.These darkly suspenseful stories offer a deeper and more nuanced look at a nation that has been plagued by poverty, political upheaval, and natural disaster, yet endures even through the bleakest times. Filled with tough characters and twisting plots, they reveal the multitude ... Read more

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  • Krik? Krak!

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    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 writer. Examining the lives of ordinary Haitians, particularly those struggling to survive under the brutal Duvalier regime, Danticat illuminates the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Anacaona, Golden Flower (The Royal Diaries)

    Golden Flower, Quisqueya, Haiti, 1490

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Series series The Royal Diaries
    Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti's heroic queen Anacaona.With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings Haiti's beautiful queen Anacaona to life. Queen Anacaona was the wife of one of her island's rulers, and a composer of songs and poems, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Behind the Mountains (First Person Fiction)

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    First Person Fiction is dedicated to the immigrant experience in modern America. In "Behind the Mountains" Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Celiane and her family's struggles in Haiti and New York.It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Eight Days

    A Story of Haiti

    by Edwidge Danticat ...
    Illustrated by Alix Delinois ...
    "Composed in the wake of the devastating earthquake of January 2010, this inspired child's-eye view will leave no reader or listener unmoved." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From the New York Times-bestselling author and National Book Award finalist comes a brilliantly crafted story of hope and imagination—a powerful tribute to Haiti and children around the world . . .While Junior is trapped for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD