In the Dew Breaker, Danticat takes hold of your heart and your mind. She juxtaposes fiction against non-fiction.
Danticat makes the story very personal while she attracts the across borders echoes of the familiar - of love, of family, the pain of the immigrant, and the clash of cultures. She touches your heart and eases it open with a force of emotions that connects the reader to past and present relationships - to love and hate and their shared memories and to the complication of betrayal of home and country. Danticat uses simplicity of language to make clear a world raped and pillaged by colonialism and its various masters both foreign and local.
To read Danticat is to revisit a resiliant pride of a people, the Haitian people, who gave us the first successful fight for freedom; she gives us reason to rage against injustice and to stand on the side of reason.
by Bacchus
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