{"id":45413,"date":"2019-06-19T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45413"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:11:39","slug":"everything-inside-by-edwidge-danticat-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/everything-inside-by-edwidge-danticat-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45394\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Everything-Inside-Edwidge-Danticat-BookDragon-540x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Everything-Inside-Edwidge-Danticat-BookDragon-540x800.jpg 540w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/06\/Everything-Inside-Edwidge-Danticat-BookDragon.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nFollowing\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/art-death-writing-final-story-edwidge-danticat-library-journal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Art of Death<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(2017), a reflection on\u00a0her mother\u2019s passing and writing, <a href=\"https:\/\/edwidgedanticat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edwidge Danticat<\/a> focuses this\u00a0haunting eight-story collection on, well,\u00a0death. Looming death becomes a bargaining chip in \u201cDosas,\u201d when an ex-husband begs his ex-wife to help save her kidnapped replacement, and in \u201cIn the Old Days,\u201d when an adult daughter is summoned to the final bedside of her never-met-before father. Survivors navigate new lives in \u201cThe Gift,\u201d which portrays\u00a0an artist who lost her lover\u2019s baby, and her lover, who has lost his wife and young daughter, and in \u201cSeven Stories,\u201d in which a prime minister\u2019s wife and daughter persevere after his assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Fatal illness causes a living death in \u201cThe Port-au-Prince Marriage Special,\u201d a tale about a young woman diagnosed with AIDS, and\u00a0in \u201cSunrise, Sunset,\u201d with\u00a0an aging woman succumbing to memory loss, while\u00a0inhumane brutality has a similar effect on\u00a0the Haitian rape victims a privileged U.S. teen encounters as a recovery center volunteer in \u201cHot Air Balloons.\u201d In the final story, a Haitian refugee recalls his life in\u00a06.5 seconds as he plummets to his death.<\/p>\n<p>Danticat\u00a0once again urges readers out of comfort zones to bear witness to urgent topics \u2013 refugee crises, polarizing inequity, violence, disasters \u2013 and alchemizes sorrows and tragedies into opportunities for literary enlightenment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Everything-Inside-Edwidge-Danticat\/pid=9717769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Following\u00a0The Art of Death\u00a0(2017), a reflection on\u00a0her mother\u2019s passing and writing, Edwidge Danticat focuses this\u00a0haunting eight-story collection on, well,\u00a0death. Looming death becomes a bargaining chip in \u201cDosas,\u201d when an ex-husband begs his ex-wife to help save her kidnapped replacement, and in \u201cIn the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142,366,90,6,7228,7229,6535,7],"tags":[89,83,6608,6668,58,368,10,11,8467,123,25,39],"class_list":["post-45413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-black-african-american","category-caribbean","category-caribbean-american","category-fiction","category-haitian","category-haitian-american","category-repost","category-short-stories","tag-anthology-collection","tag-assimilation","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-coming-of-age","tag-edwidge-danticat","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-identiy","tag-illness","tag-immigration","tag-parent-child-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/everything-inside-by-edwidge-danticat-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"*STARRED REVIEW Following\u00a0The Art of Death\u00a0(2017), a reflection on\u00a0her mother\u2019s passing and writing, Edwidge Danticat focuses this\u00a0haunting eight-story collection on, well,\u00a0death. 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