Edwidge Danticat

Breath, eyes, memory

Brother, I'm dying

a novel

The farming of bones

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--so when Isabelle is killed in a devastating car crash, Giselle must find a way to heal not only her own serious injuries, but the terrible sense of loss and grief that makes it seem as if half of her world is gone forever.

A Novel

Untwine

Zora Neale Hurston

Alphonse Fletcher University Professor Chair of Afro-American Studies Director Henry Louis Gates Jr. Jr.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Crown Journeys)

After the Dance

In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future—the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Their dyaspora, much like a butterfly's fluctuating path, is a shifting landscape in which there is much travel between two worlds, between their place of origin and their adopted land. This compilation of essays and poetry brings together Haitian-Americans of different generations and backgrounds, linking the voices for whom English is a first language and others whose dreams will always be in French and Kreyòl. Community activists, scholars, visual artists and filmmakers join renowned journalists, poets, novelists and memoirists to produce a poignant portrayal of lives in transition. Edwidge Danticat, in her powerful introduction, pays tribute to Jean Dominique, a sometime participant in the Haitian dyaspora and a recent martyr to Haiti's troubled politics, and the many members of the dyaspora who refused to be silenced. Their stories confidently and passionately illustrate the joys and heartaches, hopes and aspirations of a relatively new group of immigrants belonging to two countries that have each at times maligned and embraced them. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States

The Butterfly's Way

Edwidge Danticat

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