Edwidge Danticat

In five sections—Childhood, Migration, Half/First Generation, Return, and Future—the thirty-three contributors to this anthology write movingly, often hauntingly, of their lives in Haiti and the United States. Their dyaspora, much like a butterfly's fluctuating path, is a shifting landscape in which there is much …

The Dew Breaker is a novel by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004. The title "comes from a Creole phrase which refers to those who break the serenity of the grass in the morning dew. It is a Creole nickname for torturer." In this case, the "Dew Breakers" are members of the Tonton Macoutes, a group of volunteers who …

Farming of Bones is a work of historical fiction by Edwidge Danticat, published in 1998.