Edwidge Danticat was nominated for the National Book Award in 1995 for her story collection, Krik? Krak! Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published to acclaim when she was twenty-five.
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From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her 'second father,' when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated and saddened when, at twelve, she jo... SEE MORE