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At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring stre

A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea Light Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal ac

In a seaside town in Haiti, widower Nozias finally makes the gut-wrenching decision to give up his daughter Claire so she can have a better life.

In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer.

When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph.