Let’s all rejoice! Literary phenom Edwidge Danticat‘s collection of eight stories ☛EVERYTHING INSIDE[pub: Knopf] is available today. I’ve been longing for some good storytelling that challenges my own writing and honestly, reading abilities while transporting me out of my own world into an elsewhere that leaves me more self aware. Thank you, again, Edwidge.
New Yorkers: check out the Haitian-American author at Brooklyn Borough Hall and Plaza on Sunday, September 22nd or Wednesday, September 25th at 92nd St. Y. For even more dates and cities click here.
Per Penguin Random House:
Rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity, set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, Everything Inside is at once wide in scope and intimate, as it explores the forces that pull us together, or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby’s christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose.This is the indelible work of a keen observer of the human heart–a master at her best.
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