Book Review: 'We're Alone' by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political

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Book Review: 'We're Alone' by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat weaves personal and political
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Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in “We’re Alone,” a new volume of essays, says AP reviewer Anita Snow. She includes include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like the assassination of a president back in her native country.

explores family, homeland and her literary heroes in “We’re Alone,” a new volume of essays that include personal narratives of her early years as child immigrant in Brooklyn to reportage of recent events like the assassination of a president back in her native county.

In one essay in the slim volume, Danticat contemplates her family, describing the consequences of one uncle being gripped by dementia, his memory erased, his past suddenly vanished.

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