**NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "brilliant book, undoubtedly the best one yet
by an enormously talented writer" (The Washington Post Book World),
about love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and
of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with
history.
**
In this award-winning, bestselling work of fiction that moves between
Haiti in the 1960s and New York in the present day, we meet an unusual
man who is harboring a vital, dangerous secret. He is a quiet man, a
good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a
landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book
unfolds, we enter the lives of those around him, and his secret is
slowly revealed. Edwidge Danticat's brilliant exploration of the "dew
breaker"--or torturer--is an unforgettable story from one of America's
most essential writers.