The dew Breaker

Locations
Call Number: Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

The book of the dead -- Seven -- Water child -- The book of miracles -- Night talkers -- The bridal seamtress -- Monkey tails -- The funeral singer -- The dew breaker.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Haitii: A many-faceted view submitted by patricia alvis on March 17, 2021, 3:11pm I read this because my grandson read and liked it in his Lit class. Danticat is an able writer; the construct of this book is powerful. A set of nine stories presents one character in particular in different settings (a small village, the capital Port-au-Prince, New York City) or from different points of view. The final story, with the same title as that of the book, reveals what may be the most authentic story. The whole is an examination of the possibilities of life in Haiti, from Haiti in New York, maybe anyone anywhere.
A special gift for me was-the sprinkling of phonetically spelled Creole words, reminding my that a people nominally French-speaking, poor and uneducated, create a new language.