Behind the Mountains
by Edwidge DanticatWriting in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.
- First published
- Apr 05, 2022
- Publishers
- Scholastic Press
About Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was twelve. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. She is also the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures.Danticat earned a degree in French Literature from Barnard College, where she won the 1995 Woman of Achievement Award, and later an MFA from Brown University. She lives in Miami with her husband and daughters....
Books
My Mommy Medicine
Edwidge Danticat
My mommy medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well, from renowned author edwidge danticat.
Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat
My Mommy Medicine
Edwidge Danticat
My mommy medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well, from renowned author edwidge danticat.
Everything Inside
Edwidge Danticat
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of brother, i'm dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.
Plough Quarterly No. 20 - The Welcome Table
Edwidge Danticat
Food - how it's grown, how it's shared - makes us who we are.
Untwine
Edwidge Danticat
Giselle boyer and her identical twin, isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling.
The Art of Death
Edwidge Danticat
The Art of Death
Edwidge Danticat
Poetry of Haitian Independence
Edwidge Danticat
At the turn of the nineteenth century, haiti became the first and only modern country born from a slave revolt.
Haiti Noir 2
Edwidge Danticat
The best anthology of classic haitian fiction ever assembled, unparalleled in scope.
Claire of the sea light
Edwidge Danticat
From the best-selling author of brother, i’m dying and the dew breaker: a stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
The Last Mapou
Edwidge Danticat
In haiti, the mapou (silk cotton) tree is a very symbolic national tree.
Claire Of The Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat
Claire Of The Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat
From the best-selling author of brother, i’m dying and the dew breaker: a stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
Claire of the sea light
Edwidge Danticat
From the best-selling author of brother, i’m dying and the dew breaker: a stunning new work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
Eight days
Edwidge Danticat
Junior tells the games he played in his mind during the eight days he was trapped in his house after the devastating january 12, 2010 earthquake in haiti.
Eight Days
Edwidge Danticat
Junior tells the games he played in his mind during the eight days he was trapped in his house after the devastating january 12, 2010 earthquake in haiti.
Vaarwel, broer
Edwidge Danticat
Butterfly's Way
Edwidge Danticat
In four sections--childhood, migration, first generation, and return--the contributors to this anthology write powerfully, often hauntingly, of their lives in haiti and the united states.
Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat
The farming of bones begins in 1937 in a village on the dominican side of the river that separates the country from haiti.
The farming of bones
Edwidge Danticat
The farming of bones begins in 1937 in a village on the dominican side of the river that separates the country from haiti.
Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat
The farming of bones begins in 1937 in a village on the dominican side of the river that separates the country from haiti.
Farming of Bones
Edwidge Danticat
The farming of bones begins in 1937 in a village on the dominican side of the river that separates the country from haiti.
Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory
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'a vision of female solidarity which transcends place and time' sunday times: edwidge danticat's groundbreaking debut.
Dew Breaker
Edwidge Danticat
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