Memoir
We're Alone
2024·143 pages
Essays blending personal narrative and reportage on Haiti, colonialism, motherhood, resilience, and global crises from childhood to COVID-19.
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Essays blending personal narrative and reportage on Haiti, colonialism, motherhood, resilience, and global crises from childhood to COVID-19.
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A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, m...
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Violence & gore
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Political violence, dictatorship disappearances, disasters; not graphic gore
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Central focus on colonialism, Haitian politics, injustice, climate crisis
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Abuse & suffering
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Colonial trauma, slavery history, political persecution, systemic suffering
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