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Summary: A well-written collection of short stories, but.....
Review: This is a collection of short stories, some of which take place in Haiti and some in New York. The Haiti stories are unrelentingly depressing, while the New York stories are uplifting. Danticat's inspiration seems to come from family stories about Haiti and perhaps her family's experience as immigrants to the US. However, I recognized one dream sequence involving a character's father in a helicopter over a cliff as being lifted entirely from the movie "Paperhouse".
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This is a fabulous book. I can't say enough in praise of Danticat's amazing depth of understanding into the human experience or her preternatural gift with words. This book has the capacity to change your view of life as many times as you read it, and then some.
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Summary: Gives insight into Haitian culture that only fiction can.
Review: This is an amazing collection of short stories that read like poetry, and remind one of Haitian paintings. They play on the emotion, and capture a sense of what it must feel like to be a Haitian. The short stories are poetry to those who like poetry, they are anthropology for those who seek a better understanding of the culture, and they a feminist literature for those who would define it as such.While some might find them "overdone", I find them magnificent, like Haitian art.
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Summary: BRILLIANT!
Review: This is the kind of book that is too short and is too hard to find---its precious. The writing combines real-life experience with folklore and spiritual beliefs in a way that is breathtaking and fully believeable. I read the first book--Breath, Eyes, Memory and was a bit disappointed after it got rave reviews that it wasn't more like this. This book is brilliant and it deserves comparison with Jean Rhys, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Alice Walker and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Probably one of the best books by an American writer in the last 5 years.
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Summary: Beautiful
Review: Touching stories that paint a vivid picture. Every word has a role in these moving stories that depict the lives of strong women in or from Haiti. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is willing to be embraced by culture and to brave the sorrow.
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Summary: A Brilliant Young Writer
Review: Watch out for Edwidge Danticat! What an incredible young talent. Say what you will about my "slacker" generation but this writer has talent on the level of Toni Morrison at half her age.
I wasn't sure that I would enjoy KRIK KRAK! when I first picked it up but Danticat has a way of sucking you into her world. It doesn't matter if you are a middle-aged white male or Haitian -- she puts you THERE. You become the characters, you feel the heat of a Haiti afternoon, you feel the thirst of the boat people, you smell the death of your village, and feel their loss.
Toni Morrison step aside -- your replacement has arrived.
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