Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.
When Norris, a Black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clich?s from "a bad 90s teen movie.".
A young boy loses both parents as they attempt to flee Haiti for a better life, and afterward is only able to process his grief and communicate with the outside world through playing the drums.
When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.
Waking up in the hospital seriously injured, Giselle reflects on her past choices to evaluate how her friends, her family, and especially her identical twin have defined her existence.
Identical twin teenagers Giselle and Isabelle Boyer have always been inseparable, and expected to stay that way even though their Haitian American parents are separating--but when when the entire family is caught in a car crash, everyone's world is shattered forever.
voices from the Haitian dyaspora [sic] in the United States
Danticat, Edwidge
2001
A collection of essays and poetry about Haitian-Americans who travel between their country of origin and America and the experiences which bind them together.
