The art of death

By Edwidge Danticat

Subjects: Death in literature, Reference, Death, Literature, Writing Skills, Fear of death, Psychological aspects, History & criticism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, New York Times reviewed, Literatur, Literature -- History and criticism, Authorship, History and criticism, REFERENCE, Sterben, Murder in literature, Literature, history and criticism, Infanticide, Mortality in literature

Description: Danticat moves outward from the shock of her mother's cancer diagnosis and sifts through her own writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly through works of literature which circle the many incarnations of death, from individual to large-scale catastrophes. She ends with a heartrending prayer in the voice of her mother.