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Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius

Celebrated Author Edwidge Danticat Retraces the Arc of Her Literary Genius

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 While promoting her new book, an accomplished short story collection called Everything Inside, the PBK member and noted writer talks about her formative experiences, like imagining herself not as Madeline but the classic’s author, and writing for a high school paper in New York City a mere year after immigrating to the US from Haiti. She opens up about “borrowed memories” in her life and her work, about the role of death and ritual in healing, and the continuity of purpose in her writing

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