Dèy

Danticat delivers a resounding testament to the strength gained by sharing, whether in celebration, fear, grief, or family memories. This delicate and wonderful novel draws beauty from heartache. * Publisher’s Weekly *
[A] beautiful exploration of migration, gentrification and political instability. * NPR *
A searching work from one of our most gifted and consistent writers. * The Boston Globe *
Danticat’s sentences are amazing. * Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker *
In graceful, gimlet-eyed prose, Edwidge Danticat stares down preconceptions of family and belonging, lending her novel propulsion and promise. * Time *
Edwidge Danticat’s first novel in over a decade is a pristine account of the slowly unfolding aftereffects of shock * New York Magazine *
Edwidge Danticat probes the ideas of safety, home, and survival all while examining the consequences of not speaking about one’s pain * Vulture *
I love an author who knows how to emotionally wreck me, and few do it better than Edwidge Danticat … Danticat is a writer of both nuance and emotional force, and in Déy, she captures both * Chicago Review of Books *
Edwidge Danticat is back (after a decade!) with this powerful narrative of trauma, family and home. I was hooked from the first page, and while the story slows down, it flows beautifully and thoughtfully. With Haitian language and diaspora woven throughout, Dèy is an evocative reflection on contemporary violence and grief * Ms. Magazine *
A powerful study of motherhood, nationhood, and violence * Kirkus *
Dèy is a love song and an elegy for the Haitian diaspora. It sparkles with adoration for the melodic Kreyòl language. * New York Times *
Maybe the most crucial thing Edwidge has done in her career is respond to our erasure with depth, complication, and humanity … Because of writers like her, a younger generation of Black readers, girl readers, Caribbean readers can take it for granted that they will see themselves in the books they read - something that my generation could not. * Marlon James *
Dèy is a love song and an elegy for the Haitian diaspora. It sparkles with adoration for the melodic Kreyòl language, for the celebrations that take place in Miami’s Little Haiti … there is hope, however faint, in this tender novel * New York Times Book Review *
Danticat has emerged as an essential American voice in the vein of Toni Morrison * New York Times *
Poignant … [Danticat’s] descriptions of the Haitian diaspora and their extended families back home are tenderly drawn, making for an immersive read. This is a story for our times, a powerful meditation on belonging, the immigrant experience and familial love * FT *
Dèy weaves a powerful story … It’s this balance, between the brutality of external threats and the intimacies and connections of daily life, that gives the novel its tender power and hope. Just wonderful. * Marie Claire *

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including:

• The Art of Death, a National Book Critics Circle finalist
• Claire of the Sea Light, a New York Times Notable Book
• Brother, I’m Dying, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and National Book Award finalist
• The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize
• The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner
• Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah’s Book Club selection
• Krik? Krak!, also a National Book Award finalist

She is a 2018 Neustadt International Prize for Literature winner and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

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