Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, with a new introduction from Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo 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...

Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them. Create Dangerously In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art...