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Every short story in this collection depicts a different tragedy, struggle and loss. Most of the characters were forgettable. "Sunrise, Sunset" and "Seven Stories" were the only ones I really liked.
I'm slowly making my way through What's a Black Critic to Do? and Donna Bailey Nurse's profile on Edwidge Danticat was so illuminating that I added all her work to my read list. I started with Everything Inside because it was short, I saw it around in the GR streets, and its format allowed me to come back to it again and again. Every story was perfect. Each story centres its focus on Haiti at the core. They each tease out and investigate narratives around many aspects of Haitian culture, struggl...
4.5 - Nearly perfect.
I just adore Danticat and her writing. She zeroes in on those torn between Haiti and their homes in the US. Families and death, scars inside or out, living with what they've seen in the past or experienced in the present when visiting Haiti. Things that have changed their lives, in big or small ways. Emotions they carry inside themselves. Eight stories and I loved them all. Some were more intense than others, but many seem to hinge on a decision that they either make on the spot or have made in
Everything Inside is a beautiful book of 8 short stories about Haïtian people in varying degrees of distress due to violence, diaspora, and broken hearts. Each story is equally poignant talking about displacement for immigrants to Brooklyn and Miami. I grew up in Miami and recall the arrival of boats from Haïti during the two Duvalier regimes (described in the final story "Without Inspection"). I did not live near Little Haïti however and only came into rare contact with these refugees. Neverthe...
This is a DNF.... made it through 50%... I can’t bore myself any longer.
[3.5] I like Danticat's writing and was fully engaged while reading each of these well-crafted stories. However, I finished the collection several days ago and they have already faded from my mind.
I pick up an Edwidge Danticat book to dive deeply into quiet, painful emotions endured bravely and this latest collection delivers on that expectation marvelously. Loss and reconciliation haunt every page, and while not as gut-wrenching as, say, her memoir Brother, I'm Dying, the eight stories presented here all leave you wounded in the best possible way. Danticat's true genius is in the way she hold back information without it feeling like a gimmick. This technique is at its best in what is per...
I have read all of Danticat's book (most memorable being KRIK KRAK and CLAIRE OF THE SEA LIGHT) and been very moved by all, except this one. It has all the same themes: displacement, love, loss, extreme poverty, betrayal, diaspora, political persecution, all told in her uncluttered, cutting-to-the-bone style. But....but, the characters didn't move me, didn't get under my skin, as in her other books. I struggle with giving this acclaimed writer only three stars, instead of the full-force of a fiv...
I have been a devotee of Edwidge Danticat since I met her at a workshop for teachers at the Haitian embassy in Washington, DC in the 1990’s. Her writing has power, and grace, and provides deep insight into the experiences of the Haitian Diaspora, as well as into life in Haiti. This is Edwidge Danticat’s first collection of short stories. Seven of the eight stories have been previously published, some in different versions with different titles. Nevertheless, I found this to be a collection in wh...
There was nothing particularly wrong with Everything Inside, but nothing particularly right with it either. It was (and still is) hard to put my finger on, but there was just something of Danticat's typical magic missing from this text. In particular, the endings of many of the stories included in this collection seemed to trail off into vague murmurs as opposed to the intrepid conclusions I'm so used to coming from Danticat. Though it's difficult to identify favorites in a collection that felt
