A Study Guide for Danticat's Brother

A Study Guide for Danticat's Brother
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2015-09-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410335127

A Study Guide for Danticat's Brother, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Newsmakers for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Brother, I'm Dying

Brother, I'm Dying
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1400041155

In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States.

The Dew Breaker

The Dew Breaker
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307428397

We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”--or torturer--s an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America’s most essential writers. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Edwidge Danticat's Claire of the Sea Light.

A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Dew Breaker"

A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2016-06-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410344258

A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Dew Breaker," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Night Talkers"

A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 32
Release:
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410353923

A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Night Talkers," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Farming of Bones

The Farming of Bones
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1569471266

From the acclaimed author of "Krik? Krak!". 1937: On the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, a maid to the young wife of an army colonel falls in love with sugarcane cutter Sebastien. She longs to become his wife and walk into their future. Instead, terror unfolds them. But the story does not end here: it begins.

Breath, Eyes, Memory

Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Soho Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1569477965

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 supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

Everything Inside

Everything Inside
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525521283

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • "Unforgettable tales of families and lovers—from Haiti to Miami, Brooklyn, and beyond—often struggling with grief, loss, and missed connections.” —Vanity Fair • A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick! A romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences. A young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival. Two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives. A baby’s christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new. A man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose. Set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, here are eight emotionally absorbing stories, rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity. At once wide in scope and intimate, Everything Inside explores with quiet power and elegance the forces that pull us together or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.

Claire of the Sea Light

Claire of the Sea Light
Author: Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385349688

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 Light—suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed. In this stunning novel about intertwined lives, Edwidge Danticat crafts a tightly woven, breathtaking tapestry that explores the mysterious bonds we share—with the natural world and with one another.