Reading List
Edwidge Danticat
Novelist and Short Story Writer
Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian American novelist and short story writer who moved to Brooklyn at twelve to join parents who had emigrated years earlier. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, became an Oprah’s Book Club selection, and Everything Inside collects stories that move between Haiti and its diaspora. She writes about migration, dictatorship and inherited grief without ever letting the politics flatten the people carrying it.
Wandering Memory
by Jan J. Dominique · 1984 · Fiction
“It is one of those books that you find something new in each time you read it.” — via Interview
Love, Anger, Madness
A Haitian Triptych
by Marie Vieux-Chauvet · 1968 · Fiction
“The book is a beautiful trilogy, three sets of stories of people who each in their own way are taking a stand against the dictatorship.” — via Interview

