Krik? Krak!
ISBN:
9780349107165 (0349107165)
Edition language: English
Category:
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
African American,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Womens
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”- Edwidge Danticat, “Krik? Krak!” This selection of short stories was absolutely amazing. Heartbreaking, but...
Very good collection of short stories about the lives of Haitian women. I enjoyed all of them, but my favorite was a story about a woman who found the child she had always wanted.. or so she thought. Many of the women in these stories were greatly affected by the supernatural beliefs that were so in...
I was very impressed with the fluency of the poetic language. The best stories struck me as quite complex, ones such as "Children of the Sea", "The Missing Peace", or "Caroline's Wedding". The stories are a web of incantation and ritual, full of the importance of maintaining a connection to memories...
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