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Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

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Author Biography

Name: Edwidge Danticat
Birth Date: January 19, 1969
Place of Birth: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Gender: Female
Occupations: Freelance writer

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Biography of Edwidge Danticat
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Fiction writer Edwidge Danticat had accomplished the twin literary feats of winning a Pushcart Prize for short fiction and being nominated for the prestigious National Book Award before she reached the age of thirty. Concentrating her focus on the life t...


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Breath, Eyes, Memory Information
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Breath, Eyes, Memory (ISBN 0-375-70504-X) is Edwidge Danticat's acclaimed 1994 novel, and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club Selection in May of...


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The Mississippi Quarterly
A homeward journey: Edwidge Danticat's fictional landscapes, mindscapes, genescapes, and signscapes in Breath, Eyes, Memory.(Critical Essay)
12/22/2003: 3,597 words, approx. 12 pages
A NUMBER or SUMMERS AGO, WHILE ACTING as the summer replacement pastor of Sen Elen, the Catholic parish in Carice, Haiti, a town hidden in the mountains about an hour's drive from Ouanaminthe in the country's northeast sector, I read the series of...
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Breath, Eyes, Memory. (book reviews)
01/24/1994: 283 words, approx. 1 pages
A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel about a young girl's coming of age under difficult circumstances. "I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place where you carry...
 


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Critical Review by Mary Mackay
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In the following positive review of Breath, Eyes, Memory, Mackay praises Danticat for her "extraordinary optimism," "vivid characterization," and "allusive language."


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