by Edwidge Danticat
I was really expecting to like this book. It looked interesting and had a good topic, but it just didn't work. The author would start and idea, and never finish it. Like the fact she was a kind of mid-wife, it felt like it was going some where but never did. Another problem was the ending, I'm not s...
Two-point-five starsThis book really wants to be "literary" fiction, but it lacks the necessary warmth and depth. The characters are flat and underdeveloped, such that it's hard to feel sorrow for their suffering. The only way I could work up any kind of caring was to remind myself that these char...
Perfection. From the introductory quote of the "shibboleth" passage in the Bible, through the Parsley Massacre in the Dominican Republic, to the frantic return to Haiti, this book is history, tragedy, thriller, and inspiring story all wrapped into one. Haitian American Edwidge Danticat knows how to ...
A beautiful, intense novel about a part of the world and a historical era Americans know little about. Danticat is a brilliant writer and her characters are fully-formed and real. I found myself holding my breath throughout this book: you know horror is coming and the matter isn't when but just ho...
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