We're Alone: Essays

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$26.00  $24.18
Publisher
Graywolf Press
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Pages
192
Dimensions
5.5 X 7.5 X 0.8 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781644453025

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About the Author
Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and the novel-in-stories, The Dew Breaker. She is the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures, Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2, and Best American Essays 2011. She has written several books for young adults and children--Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, and Untwine--as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.
Reviews

**Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024**

"Piercing . . . Danticat remains in full command of her considerable talents." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A masterful essayist at the top of her game."--Erica Pearson, Minnesota Star Tribune

"Powerful. . . . [Danticat] offers an elegant commentary on injustice and the mixed feelings one's home can engender." --Kirkus Reviews

"Danticat's luminous, heart-forward prose tends to stick to the ribs. . . . In [We're Alone], Danticat illuminates political crises via personal ones, and vice versa."--Brittany Allen, Literary Hub's "most anticipated books of 2024"

"These pieces represent [Danticat's] outstretched hand, an invitation to spend shared time in reflection. . . . These are clearly the essays of an accomplished novelist."--Wendy S. Walters, Los Angeles Times

"Danticat's essays are collages of associations and resonances, and they are richer for it. . . . Like the informal but spirited orators she grew up idolizing, Danticat cultivates a style that is diverting and digressive. Her essays are not linear artifacts but webs that spin around ideas or turns of phrase. As such, they are never about only one thing."--Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

"This essay collection finds Danticat looking back at her native country of Haiti. Not with the naive rose-colored glasses of nostalgia, but with full awareness of the complicated nature of 'resilience' and the mixed feelings anyone has about where they came from."--NPR.org's Most Anticipated Books of Fall

"Incomparable. . . . With her signature presence, Danticat makes the personal universal and the universal personal with wisdom, grace and candid vulnerability."--Karla J. Strand, Ms. Magazine

"Deeply felt, incisively reported, and lyrically composed . . . all movingly illuminated with Danticat's signature empathy, precision, and artistry."--Donna Seaman, Booklist

"Personal, touching, rich in observations, smart, resonant, vibrant and complex. . . . Danticat once again proves that she is one of contemporary literature's strongest, most graceful voices."--Gabino Iglesias, NPR.org

"Drawing threads among issues like political upheaval, the COVID-19 pandemic and her own childhood, this is a deeply personal and wide-ranging essay collection."--People Magazine's "Best Books of September 2024"