A New York Times Notable Book
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer
Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile.
Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton
University's Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories
of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove
them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and
eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in
crisis.