NEA Big Read: IRSC Reads Brother, I'm Dying: Books, Parts of Books, Short Stories by Danticat
Information about the 2017 Big Read at Indian River State College on the Treasure Coast of Florida. We will read Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying. Check here for activities and updates to events for anyone who wants to attend.
The library has several of Danticat's other books available as streaming audiobooks. If you want one, click here. Titles available:
Krik? Krak?
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Haiti Noir
The Dew Breaker
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9781616955021
Publication Date: 2015-02-24
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her.
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9781616953492
Publication Date: 2013-05-07
It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. Already acknowledged as a classic, this harrowing story of love and survival is an unforgettable memorial to the victims of the Parsley Massacre and a testimony to the power of human memory.
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9781400034291
Publication Date: 2005-03-08
We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret.
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9780679766575
Publication Date: 1996-04-02
They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty.
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9780307472274
Publication Date: 2014-07-01
Just as her father makes the wrenching decision to send her away for a chance at a better life, Claire Limyè Lanmè--Claire of the Sea Light--suddenly disappears. As the people of the Haitian seaside community of Ville Rose search for her, painful secrets, haunting memories, and startling truths are unearthed.
Part travelogue, part memoir, part historical analysis, this is the deeply personal story of a writer rediscovering her country, along with a part of herself--and a wonderful introduction to Haiti's southern coast and to the beauty and passions of Carnival.
Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9780307946430
Publication Date: 2011-09-20
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands.
The article presents the author's views on the comparison of the socio-economic conditions in the U.S. with the socio-economic conditions in the Third World countries following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Offers a look at holding facilities in Florida for refugees to the United States. Report that refugees are being treated like criminals and terrorists due to a culture of suspicion in the U.S.; Description of the Krome Detention Center for asylum seekers in Miami, Florida.
The author talks about her experiences reading to children in post-earthquake Haiti as part of the Li, Li, Li! program, which is Creole for "Read, read, read!"
Danticat, E. (2011). Lòt bò dlo, the other side of the water. In P. Farmer's Haiti: After the earthquake. New York: Public Affairs.
Farmer describes the incredible suffering--and resilience--that he encountered in Haiti. Having worked in the country for nearly thirty years, he skillfully explores the social issues that made Haiti so vulnerable to the earthquake--the very issues that make it an "unnatural disaster."
Trouillot, E. (2013). Foreword [by E. Danticat]. The infamous Rosalie [M. A. Salvodon Trans.]. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Lisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage as well.
Hurston, Z. N. (2006). Foreword [by E. Danticat]. Their eyes were watching God. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
Danticat, E.. (2003). Children of the sea. In W. Brown & A. Ling (Eds.), Imagining America: Stories from the promised land. New York: Persea Books.
Thirty-seven short stories from 1900 to the present, written by some of our best authors follow the waves of immigration into and migration within the United States
Danticat, E. (Ed.). (2003). The butterfly's way. New York: Soho Press.
Poetry, essays, stories, and letters by people whose Haitian experiences shaped their lives.
Young Adult Fiction Books by Danticat
Untwine by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9780545423038
Publication Date: 2015-09-29
Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers have a tragic encounter that will shatter everyone's world forever. Giselle wakes up in the hospital, injured and unable to speak or move. Trapped in the prison of her own body, Giselle must revisit her past in order to understand how the people closest to her have shaped and defined her.
Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
ISBN: 9780439373005
Publication Date: 2004-02-01
In "Behind the Mountains" Edwidge Danticat tells the story of Celiane and her family's struggles in Haiti and New York. It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gains a fresh resolve to be reunited with her father in Brooklyn, New York.
Bragg, B. (2013). Expressions of African-based spirituality in Edwidge Danticat’s breath, eyes, memory. In C. P. Marsh-Lockett & E. J. West (Eds.), Literary expressions of African spirituality. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Chancy, M. J. A. (2012). Facing the mountains: Dominican suppression and the Haitian imaginary in the work of Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat. In From sugar to revolution: Women's visions of Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Also, "Recovering History "Bone by Bone": A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat: -pp. 109-130.
Danticat, E. (2009). Brother, I'm Dying. In A. M. Hacht (Ed.), Literary newsmakers for students: Presenting analysis, context, and criticism on newsmaking novels, nonfiction, and poetry. (Vol. 3, pp. 64-82). Detroit: Gale.
The Dew Breaker. (2009). In Novels for students: Presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels (Vol. 28, pp. 77-98). Detroit: Gale.
Brown-Rose, J. A. (2009). Nou la: Memory, history, and voice in the works of Edwidge Danticat. Critical nostalgia and Caribbean migration. New York: Peter Lang.
Kaussen, V. (2007). Revealing is healing: The memory of collective politics in Edwidge Danticat’s the dew breaker and the farming of bones. Migrant revolutions. Lanham, MD: Leington Books.
Caroline's Wedding. (2007). In I. M. Milne (Ed.), Short stories for students (Vol. 25, pp. 17-41). Detroit: Gale.