Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Eight Days Eight Days Edwidge Danticat,Alix Delinois Junior tells of the games he played in his mind during the eight days he was trapped in his house after the devastating January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti. Includes author's note about Haitian chi… OL15685791W
Anacaona, Golden Flower Anacaona, Golden Flower Edwidge Danticat Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arriv… OL1806959W
After the Dance After the Dance Edwidge Danticat "Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, go… OL1806973W
Brother, I'm dying Brother, I'm dying Edwidge Danticat From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her "second father," when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so … OL1806975W
The art of death The art of death Edwidge Danticat 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 ci… OL19715194W