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The sort of short stories that novelists envy. Danticat writes with such fury, with such purpose--about a topic neither you or I are acquainted with! (Well, maybe I don't know you too much, do I?)Haiti. The last time I gave this country a lick of thought was when I explained to my niece how zombies are made. I am sooo horrid! Just like the orange infant in the White House--unaware, HAPPY to be ignorant of, places other than here.That the book begins with an epistolary of two different souls, nev...
April 2018This was an interesting re-read for me because based on the review below, I didn't enjoy it too much the first time. Eight years later, I enjoyed it so much more than I thought I would. I love how each story reads like a book and how engaging the characters are. Some of my favorite stories were:Children of the Sea A Wall of Fire Rising Between the Pool and the GardeniasSeeing things SimplyNew York Day WomenCaroline Wedding Women Like UsFirst book by Danticat and I am intrigued. I liked...
***read for women in lit course***my favorite stories here were children of the sea, a wall of fire rising, and caroline's wedding. But, the collection as a whole was really powerful and full of stories that weave together well. would definitely recommend it.
I’d never heard the words Kirk? Krak! and wondered what they meant when I picked this book up. Reading the back cover, I learned that storytellers say Krik? and listeners say Krak! in Haiti. Krik? Krak! is a poetic collection of connected short stories that explores the Haitian community in the United States and in Haiti. https://browngirlreading.com/2016/08/...
“These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.”- Edwidge Danticat, “Krik? Krak!”This selection of short stories was absolutely amazing. Heartbreaking, but brilliant. We see Haiti through different eyes, each pair experiencing a lot of pain and loss. Even with the knowledge that I have of Haiti’s horrific history, what Danticat wrote (using vignettes tol
I absolutely loved these heartbreaking and poignant short stories. Brava, Edwidge!
Everyone knows what the baseline reader is. The body is abstract, the habits of the norm, the names of a conventional origin, the hierarchy unquestioned. To get a hint of the opposite, look at which covers are commissioned for thematic design and which consist of bodies and cultural artifacts. You'll learn about the blackened butterfly of this cover through one of the stories, as well as about the lives of the women that fit the archetype of my alternative cover that the digitized edition does n...
Rating 3.75
Krik? Krak! is a collection of stories that mainly highlights the negative consequences of Haiti’s complicated history of violence and power struggles through the stories of lives of ordinary Haitians. All the characters that are given shape in this book suffer in some ways directly from the complicated politics within Haiti that has led to mass murdering and countless sufferings. On a deeper level, Krik? Krak! also underscores the important question imposed on citizens of all developing countri...
in Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat successfully defines Haitian identity through various young women in different short stories by telling of their hardships and struggles. This novel is harrowing and at the same time uplifting because reading of these women's lives is humbling to anyone who has only ever known freedom, yet their strength and determination to attain true freedom lifts the reader up. Krik? Krak! embodies the strength of the Haitian identity through women. Cold reality told with styl...
