Edwidge Danticat

Nov 12, 2024 | melindawmoyer.substack.com | Grace Byers |Edwidge Danticat |Melinda Wenner Moyer

It is hard to feel optimistic right now. I’m heartbroken by the choice our country made last week — though, sadly, not surprised. My lack of surprise disheartens me, too. But when I woke my kids up on Wednesday morning, I realized that I am not without hope. They are my hope. My daughter cried and said she was so sad for Kamala and all of the people whose lives will be hurt by a Trump presidency. She understands what’s at stake. And she’s only ten.

Oct 16, 2024 | audible.com | Yvonne Durant |Maika Moulite |Maritza Moulite |Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat’s book Krik? Krak! introduced the literary world to the term used for the call-and-response style of Haitian storytelling. The storyteller begins by saying “Krik,” and listeners respond with “Krak.” It sounds like child’s play, but Danticat’s award-winning collection of short stories was anything but as story after story deals with the pains and challenges of what Haitian women have faced through the years.

Oct 8, 2024 | thedial.world | Edwidge Danticat

1. Two days before Christmas 2017, I headed to a popular mall — Aventura Mall — not far from my home to get my then 12-year-old daughter Mira her first cell phone. The line to drive into the mall was endless. It was, I suspected, filled with people like me, who could no longer get anything online that would be delivered before Christmas. The line at the store was also long, but not as long as the winding lane of cars heading for the exit of the five-story parking lot after I purchased the phone.

Sep 24, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Edwidge Danticat

In a bizarre convergence, We’re Alone, Haitian American Edwidge Danticat’s slender new essay collection, came out exactly a week before the Republican candidate for president — in front of a debate audience of 67 million — accused a community of Haitian immigrants in Ohio of stealing and eating pets.

Sep 20, 2024 | johnacarroll.substack.com | Edwidge Danticat

By Edwidge DanticatSeptember 18, 2024 at 6:45 a.m. EDTEdwidge Danticat is a Haitian American writer and the author, most recently, of the essay collection “We’re Alone.”In our middle school in Brooklyn in 1981, there were two dismissal times — one for the other children and one for those of us who were Haitian American.