Edwidge Danticat

The Armchair Explorers Reading Group will meet at the Around the Corner Cafe on March 17th at 6:30 pm to discuss The farming of bones by Edwidge Danticat.

If you are a member of this reading group, please stop by The Northshire Bookstore to pick up your reserved copy of this title (and receive a 20% discount).

We currently have so many excited readers that this group is full. For more information about the group or to be put on the waiting list please contact ReadingGroupsNY@northshire.com.

Location: Street: Around the Corner Cafe Additional: 422 Broadway City: Saratoga Springs, Province: New York Postal Code: 12866 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Edwidge Danticat (Breath, eyes, memory, Brother, I'm Dying, Claire of the Sea Light, Krik? Krak!, The Dew Breaker, The farming of bones, Love, Anger, Madness, Create Dangerously)

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, eyes, memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The farming of bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters. (added from Random House)… (more)

Edwidge Danticat (Breath, eyes, memory, Brother, I'm Dying, Claire of the Sea Light, Krik? Krak!, The Dew Breaker, The farming of bones, Love, Anger, Madness, Create Dangerously)

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, eyes, memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The farming of bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters. (added from Random House)… (more)

Edwidge Danticat (Breath, eyes, memory, Brother, I'm Dying, Claire of the Sea Light, Krik? Krak!, The Dew Breaker, The farming of bones, Love, Anger, Madness, Create Dangerously)

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, eyes, memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The farming of bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters. (added from Random House)… (more)

Edwidge Danticat (Breath, eyes, memory, Brother, I'm Dying, Claire of the Sea Light, Krik? Krak!, The Dew Breaker, The farming of bones, Love, Anger, Madness, Create Dangerously)

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, eyes, memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The farming of bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters. (added from Random House)… (more)

Edwidge Danticat (Breath, eyes, memory, Brother, I'm Dying, Claire of the Sea Light, Krik? Krak!, The Dew Breaker, The farming of bones, Love, Anger, Madness, Create Dangerously)

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, eyes, memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The farming of bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters. (added from Random House)… (more)

Edwidge Danticat (Breath, eyes, memory, Brother, I'm Dying, Claire of the Sea Light, Krik? Krak!, The Dew Breaker, The farming of bones, Love, Anger, Madness, Create Dangerously)

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, eyes, memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The farming of bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. She lives in Miami with her husband and two daughters. (added from Random House)… (more)

Join Porter Square Books and Cambridge Reads for an evening with Edwidge Danticat at the Sanders theater. This is a ticketed event. Tickets are free and limited to 4 per person. Tickets will be available starting on September 6th. “Nuanced . . . intricate . . . intimate . . . evocative. Danticat’s prose has the shimmering simplicity of a folk tale and the same matter-of-fact acceptance of life’s cruelties and injustices. Yet despite the unsparing depiction of a corrupt society, there’s tremendous warmth in Danticat’s treatment of her characters, who are striving for human connection in a hard world. Both lyrical and clear-eyed—a rare and welcome combination.” Kirkus Reviews Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award finalist; Breath, eyes, memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The farming of bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She lives in Miami. Cambridge READS is sponsored by the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library. Please Note: This is an off-site event at the Sanders Theater

Location: Street: Sanders Theater Additional: 45 Quincy St City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02138 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Description

“We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.” —Harriet Tubman

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life—to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth—and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own.

Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity. A brutal world rendered beautifully, Jesmyn Ward’s memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat’s Brother, I'm Dying, Tobias Wolff's This Boy’s Life, and Maya Angelou’s I know why the caged bird sings. About the Author

Jesmyn Ward grew up in DeLisle, Mississippi. She received her MFA from the Univ. of Michigan and has been a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a Grisham Visiting Writer in Residence at the Univ. of Mississippi. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at the Univ. of South Alabama. She is the author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the bones, for which she won the 2011 National Book Award, and was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Literary Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as a nominee for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Location: Street: 160 Courthouse Sq City: Oxford, Province: Mississippi Postal Code: 38655-3914 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)