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Krik?Krak!
Edwidge Danticat. Vintage Contemporaries: 1996 (paperback - reprint). ISBN: 067976657X. 224 pages.
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Following Oprah's recommendation, many book groups have discovered Danticat by reading
her newest novel, The Farming of the Bones. Krik? Krak! is an earlier work, a collection of short stories
about Haitian people struggling to deal with their violent and terrible legacy, both as survivors in Haiti and as immigrants in
the United States. Despite their frequently sad or brutal content, the best of these stories read like lucid dreams, like succinct
poems, not a word or image out of place. We are so used to encountering violent stories on the evening news that the people of a
place like Haiti tend to become faceless emblems of yet more human misery, but this book gives them faces, and voices; it makes
them real. This 1995 National Book Award finalist is the Dandicat work to read if you want to find out why the 30-year-old author
has been called the heir to Toni Morrison.
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