Short stories by Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist, The Farming of Bones, The Dew Breaker, Create Dangerously, Claire of the Sea Light, _and _Everything Inside. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2. She has written seven books for children and young adults, Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, Untwine,MyMommy Medicine, as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur fellow, a 2018 Ford Foundation “The Art of Change” fellow, and the winner of the 2018 Neustadt International Prize and the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award.
Listing 3 stories.
Dany returns to Haiti after six years in New York, prepared to tell his aunt that he has found the man who killed his parents. However, a new friendship with a stranger makes him rethink his obsession with avenging the past.
A young man reunites with his wife after she flies from Port-au-Prince to New York City, but seven years apart and numerous affairs have created distance between them.
In limbo between life and death after falling five hundred feet into a cement mixer, a construction worker reflects on the nature of love.