Breath, Eyes, Memory
 Amazon.com Review: Oprah Book Club® Selection, May 1998: "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as [... more]
$20.00
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The Farming of Bones
Amazon.com Review: In a 1930s Dominican Republic village, the scream of a woman in labor rings out like the shot heard around Hispaniola. Every detail of the birth scene--the balance of power between the middle-aged Señora and her Haitian maid, [... more]
$23.00
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The Dew Breaker
Amazon.com Review: In her third novel, The Dew Breaker, the prolific Edwidge Danticat spins a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the U.S. who reveals to his artist daughter that he is not, as she believes, a [... more]
$13.95
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Me Dying Trial (Caribbean Writers Series)
A Surprise Jewel: Anyone with a love of West Indian literature should real ME DYING TRIAL. Likewise, those with an interest in the gay and lesbian literature that has been coming from Caribbean writers over the past decade. ME DYING TRIAL is the first [... more]
$9.95
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Massacre River
Le peuple des terres mêlées: Massacre River Massacre River - a title, by the way, which does not by far do justice to the original Le Peuple des terres mêlées, as the translator dutifully explains - is a book from the reading of [... more]
$22.95
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After the Dance: A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, ...
This poignant narrative will mesmerize readers: You are given a challenge that harkens back to your childhood ---return to carnival and write about it. You think about the consequences, and perhaps second guess yourself for allowing someone to even [... more]
$16.95
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Modern Classics)
Amazon.com Review: At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her [... more]
$24.50
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Brown Girl, Brownstones (Contemporary Classics by Women)
these reviews are sad: i'm horrified at these reviews. marshall has put together a brilliant novel rich in prose and dialogue, an amazing work overall that should earn her the right to be identified with among the most important writers in the last half [... more]
$15.95
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Brother, I'm Dying
A Good Book, Yes, But Also an Important Book: Edwidge Danticat is possibly the best American fiction writer of the younger generation. Her novels and story collections have cut a broad swath through the history of 20th century Haiti and the Haitian [... more]
$23.95
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Vale Of Tears: A Novel From Haiti
A well told tale about the power of choice: Vale of Tears by Paulette Poujol Oriol is a tragic tale about how far a person can fall depending on the choices that are made. The main character is Coralie a weak-willed, naive girl who never learns from the [... more]
$16.99
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The Dew Breaker
Amazon.com Review: In her third novel, The Dew Breaker, the prolific Edwidge Danticat spins a series of related stories around a shadowy central figure, a Haitian immigrant to the U.S. who reveals to his artist daughter that he is not, as she believes, a [... more]
$20.65
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Brother I'm Dying
A Good Book, Yes, But Also an Important Book: Edwidge Danticat is possibly the best American fiction writer of the younger generation. Her novels and story collections have cut a broad swath through the history of 20th century Haiti and the Haitian [... more]
$34.99
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