Format:
Book
Title:
Krik? Krak! / Edwidge Danticat.
Author:
Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-
Call Number:
FIC DANTICAT E
Publisher, Date:
New York : Soho Press, c1995.
Description:
224 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"Nine powerful stories about life under Haiti's dictatorships: the terrorism of the Tonton Macoutes; the slaughtering of hope and the resiliency of love; about those who fled to America to give their children a better life and those who stayed behind in the villages; about the linkages of generations of women through the magical tradition of storytelling."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects:
Haitian Americans -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Haiti -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genre:
Short stories.
Contents:
1. Children of the Sea -- 2. Nineteen Thirty-Seven -- 3. A Wall of Fire Rising -- 4. Night Women -- 5. Between the Pool and the Gardenias -- 6. The Missing Peace -- 7. Seeing Things Simply -- 8. New York Day Women -- 9. Caroline's Wedding -- Epilogue: Women Like Us.
ISBN:
9781616957001 (trade)
1569470251