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Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat [in Booklist]

19 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Repost, Short Stories

*STARRED REVIEW Following The Art of Death (2017), a reflection on her mother’s passing and writing, Edwidge Danticat focuses this haunting eight-story collection on, well, death. Looming death becomes a bargaining chip in “Dosas,” when an ex-husband begs his ex-wife to help save her kidnapped replacement, and in “In the Old...

American Street by Ibi Zoboi [in Shelf Awareness]

23 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Arriving with her mother from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at Kennedy Airport, "holding hands for courage," 17-year-old Fabiola Toussaint, a U.S. citizen by birth, is ushered through Customs while immigration officials detain Manman. Fabiola is forced to leave her behind in New York, and lands alone in...

Author Interview: Pamela Erens [in Bloom]

04 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Jewish, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Repost

While Pamela Erens might not yet be a household-name author, she’s hardly a stranger to literary recognition. Her 2007 debut, The Understory – about a solitary, unemployed lawyer who’s about to lose his home – was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the...

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay

24 Dec, by SIBookDragon in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Memoir, Nonfiction

If I were to choose the one book that affected me most this year – the one that ran the entire spectrum from giddiest to maddest, from eye-opening in wonder to eye-scrunching in horror – this is it. Bad Feminist has forever changed the way I read,...

Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

28 May, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American

I read the eponymous first chapter almost a year ago and then stopped. I listened to the same story – the absolute highlight in the disappointingly uneven collection Haiti Noir – so smoothly, lullingly read by Robin Miles, and again stopped. The book stayed on my desk...

Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg

20 Nov, by SIBookDragon in Caribbean, Fiction, Haitian, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Poetry, Verse Novel/Nonfiction

Serafina, who lives in the outskirts of Haiti's Port-au-Prince, has never had the chance to go to school. With rarely enough to eat, her family has nothing left over to pay the school fees, much less buy the required uniform. While her father works at...

Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti by Frances Temple

07 Jun, by SIBookDragon in Caribbean, Fiction, Haitian, Middle Grade Readers, Young Adult Readers

If Youme's Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope is a picture book for the youngest readers, then Taste of Salt is surely its companion title for older children and parents alike. The real-life Lanfami Sélavi – Jean-Bertrand Aristide's refuge for homeless children founded in 1986 – is...

Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope by Youme, with an essay by Edwidge Danticat

29 May, by SIBookDragon in Caribbean, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Haitian, Haitian American, Nonfiction

The first thing you need to know is that this story is real. And although it was first published eight years ago – and six years before the tragic January 12, 2010 Haitian earthquake – Sélavi is an even more urgent call for help for Haiti's children. A...

A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez [in Christian Science Monitor]

26 Apr, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Haitian, Latina/o/x, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

Neither Julia Alvarez nor her husband Bill can remember exactly when she fell in love with a Haitian boy named Piti. But both distinctly recall the first meeting, which happened in 2001 on one of their many trips to Alvarez’s native Dominican Republic. “[S]hort and...

Eight Days: A Story of Haiti by Edwidge Danticat, illustrated by Alix Delinois

30 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American

This has been one tragic week: the deadly Oaxaca, Mexico mudslide, the two Rutgers freshmen whose abusively invasive actions led to the suicide of a third first-year student, the deaths of iconic actor Tony Curtis and director Arthur Penn ...

Brother, I’m Dying by Edwidge Danticat [in San Francisco Chronicle]

10 Oct, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Haitian, Haitian American, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost

brother-im-dying1 Something magical happens when prize-winning novelist Edwidge Danticat strings words together. From the most trivial details to breathtaking moments of enormous gravity, Danticat uses words as charms that gently beckon readers into her world and make...

We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11 by Tram Nguyen, foreword by Edwidge Danticat [in AsianWeek]

29 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Haitian, Haitian American, Nonethnic-specific, Nonfiction, Repost, Vietnamese American

We Are All Suspects Now Award-winning Haitian American writer Danticat opens this sobering title with the death of her 81-year-old uncle who fled his native land when his life was threatened,...

The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat + Author Interview [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Sep, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Repost

dew-breaker Horror, Hope & Redemption: A Talk with Edwidge Danticat About Her Latest Novel, The Dew Breaker When I mention to a dear friend in England, who happens to be an excellent fiction writer herself, that I’m preparing...

Series Profile: First Person Fiction [in Bloomsbury Review]

01 Jan, by SIBookDragon in Author Interview/Profile, Black/African American, Cambodian American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Korean American, Latina/o/x, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Southeast Asian, Young Adult Readers

first-person-fiction Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez Finding My Hat by John Son The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho With the exception of the Native Americans—and some may still argue that they walked over the...

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