Edwidge Danticat

2 summariesFiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah's Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. As of the fall of 2023, she will be the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Columbia University.

Books by Edwidge Danticat

2 books available

Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat
3.7 (12k) average on GoodreadsFiction
Danticat shows how love, loss, and memory span generations and borders, revealing the fragile threads that hold Haitian families together even as life threatens to unravel them.
The Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat
4.1 (8k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
After a 1937 ethnic cleansing, a Haitian maid's dream of marriage and returning home with her lover is shattered, forcing her into a desperate fight for survival against the Dominican Republic's genocidal fury.