"When a child wakes up feeling sick, she is treated to a good dose of Mommy Medicine. Her remedy includes a yummy cup of hot chocolate; a cozy, bubble-filled bath time; and unlimited snuggles and cuddles. Mommy Medicine can heal all woes and make any day the best day!"--Provided by publisher.
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.
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.
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.
Edwidge Danticat has always feared the Carnival in Haiti, but one year she decides to overcome her fears by spending the week before Carnival in the area around Jacmel, tracing the region's history and learning about the Carnival festival and its traditions.
In a personal memoir, the author describes her relationships with the two men closest to her--her father and his brother, Joseph, a charismatic pastor with whom she lived after her parents emigrated from Haiti to the United States.
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.
