Krik? Krak!

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Summary: Magnifico
Review: This book is very interesting, it starts off as a teen radio station running from the law(action). Edwidge truly expands on how women are treated. There are so many theme that all can be related in to one braid. Edwidge has really out done herself this time. I suggest you buy this book it you want to learn about womens struggle with a little bit of action/drama. The first thing that came to my mind was intriguing poetry.

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Summary: Praise for Krik? Krak!
Review: "In this collection of spare, luminous stories that read like poems, Edwidge Danticat has taken the travails of the Haitian people and their resiliency of spirit and given them universal meaning and appeal. These KRIK? KRAK! tales more than confirm the promise of her magical first novel. A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary voice in Edwidge Danticat."
-- Paule Marshall

"Edwidge Danticat's strong and unique voice speaks in the language of hearts. She knows the dreams and hidden thoughts of characters, and her readers. She takes us traveling down a river of blood. That river sings in our veins."
-- Walter Mosley

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Summary: great stuff
Review: Edwidge Danticat is a writer to watch. Her prose is elegant, even poetic. Her stories are heart wrenching and gorgeous. She weaves these tales with amazing deft and makes you care about her characters and their lives. The work has the feel of autobiography in its largest and most human sense

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Summary: Hopeton Allen
Review: Edwidge Danticat is the extrodinary author of Krik?Krak! In her book, Danticat weaves history, memory, sexuality, Haitian/American experience, women's oppresison, migration, culture, and language using also her life and experience to create a book that has deep multiple meanings. One which a person must look between the lines in order to understand such a book. Danticat uses poetic writing which emphasis the character's situation. She is a great author and person to the writting world.

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Summary: Krik Krak is okay, but...
Review: For the most part, I liked the book. But I felt that the Haiti stories were depressing, and the New York stories too lightweight. I'd like to have seen more of the conflicts between Haitian and American culture. The conflicts seem too bland for me. I think that "New York Day Women" is the best story in the collection.

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Summary: fantastic read!
Review: great book! Great plot! wonderful story lines!

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Summary: Kric Krac
Review: I am in High school and recntly read Kric Krac for Englich. It is an amazing book filled with unbelievable stories. ALthough at times the images in the stories are quite horrifying, Danticat writes them with raw honesty. Her imagery and language is beautiful. THis is an amazing book!!!!!!!

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Summary: Overhyped, overpraised and overtly sentimental
Review: I first heard about the book when it was nominated for the National Book Award. I expected a short-listed book to be of a high standard at the very least but this book was a total disappointment. The writing is plain, dull and the 'poetry' that many reviewers talk of is lacking. Whilst the subject matter is painful, you feel as if the writing is too contrived and its primary purpose is to aim a few darts at the heart. This kind of sentimental and melodramatic writing is hardly the material of great or good literature. It reads like the 'tragic' tales section of certain tabloids.

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Summary: With relation to style and power of content
Review: I have just finished this book for a Senior Seminar in Literature at Northern Arizona University. In short, I feel that this book's power of language will encompass readers of many genres. At the same time, this book will slowly reveal and force the reader to become aware of life in a different place than we, as Americans, are used to experiencing. Danticat's sketch of this Haitian family,friends, and foes can accomlish these and other goals. This book belongs in the cannon of contemporary literature, and is recomended for anyone who can realize that other parts of the world are quite different from our's. A great book.

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Summary: Haunting- like Haiti, itself
Review: I picked Krik? Krak? from a bookshelf at the guest house in Port-au-Prince where I was staying just to kill some time before friends came to get me. However, 2 hours later, I had devoured it from cover to cover. The most amazing story is "Children of the Sea" and it proceeds from there to tell the history of a family, through short stories that connect Haiti, the US and all people. Friends I have lent this book to, agree. All of Edwidge Danticat's work is incredible.