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A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage
Book Title
We're Alone
Subtitle
Essays
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- “Powerful. . . . [Danticat] offers an elegant commentary on injustice and the mixed feelings one’s home can engender.”—Kirkus Reviews
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Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience.
From hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides through both tragedies and triumphs.
Danticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart, outrage, humor, clear thinking, and moral questioning, while reminding us of the possibilities of community. We’re Alone is a book that asks us to think through some of the world’s intractable problems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant novelists at work today.
From hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides through both tragedies and triumphs.
Danticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart, outrage, humor, clear thinking, and moral questioning, while reminding us of the possibilities of community. We’re Alone is a book that asks us to think through some of the world’s intractable problems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant novelists at work today.
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Edwidge Danticat (WE'RE ALONE) reading and in conversation with Roxane Gay as part of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival at the Center for Fiction
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Praise
- “Piercing . . . Danticat remains in full command of her considerable talents.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
- “Danticat’s luminous, heart-forward prose tends to stick to the ribs. . . . In [We're Alone], Danticat illuminates political crises via personal ones, and vice versa.”—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub's “most anticipated books of 2024”
