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Novelist Edwidge Danticat became a National Book Award Finalist in 2007 for her moving family memoir Brother, I’m Dying. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti until the age of twelve, Danticat recalls the lives of her father and uncle; two men who...

Novelist Edwidge Danticat became a National Book Award Finalist in 2007 for her moving family memoir Brother, I’m Dying. Born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti until the age of twelve, Danticat recalls the lives of her father and uncle; two men who follow different paths to escape Haiti’s political turmoil. While one immigrates to the United States, the other remains until the country’s violent unrest destroys his livelihood. In sharing the lives and tragic deaths of these two men, Danticat tells a larger story of family and exile, the Haitian diaspora, and the harsh realities of US immigration policy in a post- 9/11 world.

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