When Edwidge Danticat was two, her father left her in Haiti for a better life in America. When Edwidge was four, her mother left, so by the time she joined her parents in New York, Edwidge had lived most of her childhood in Haiti with relatives.
Her latest novel takes us back to that time, exploring the poetry, the pain and the complicated family connections that exist between Haiti and its American Diaspora.
“The Dew Breaker” takes us inside the previous lives of those who were tortured, and those who did the torturing. Both are haunted by the memories of the crimes. Both confront different truths. So Haitian-Americans even today wonder about the past while they witness today’s upheaval of the Caribbean Island nation.
Guests:
Edwidge Danticat, author of “The Dew Breaker.”