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- erika
- 03-04-15
great, emotional
Very insightful book about the lives of the people in Haiti on a personal level. the stories are somewhat sad and disheartening but the author has great purpose in writing the book. Very good narration also.
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- Baje Bookclub (@baje_bookclub)
- 11-01-23
Short story collection
This short story collection was good and heartbreaking at the same time. Haitians have been through a lot.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-17-23
One Of the best Books I’ve read
I am a ELA III for the 11th grade in the bronx. Opening with this book has allowed me to introduce my scholars not only into the world of storytelling but aligning it with actually historical event.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-25-22
A childhood favorite...
I remember finding this book when I was in elementary school, and how vivid and beautiful the stories were... to hear them brought to life in an audiobook was truly magical! 💖
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- Patrick V. Milord
- 08-01-22
PHENOMENAL!!!!
This book is a canonical volume of Haitian-American literature
Any Haitian or American of Haitian descent will appreciate this book!
Every character in this book reminded me of my mother, father, aunt, uncle, sister & cousin.
The bone and pumpkin soup references made me feel nostalgic!!!
I really enjoyed this audiobook. The accolades it received are well deserved!!!
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- Chiti Kaunda
- 01-04-22
Beautiful short stories of strength & resilience
To know Haiti is to know a history of overcoming. Slaves who overthrew their masters and have been eternally challenged by rejecting whiteness. These are beautiful stories written from the perspective of women with connection to Ville Rose. They tell stories of the Haitians who stayed and those of the diaspora, their plight, but most of all their grounding in a dignified identity. Very well narrated. Inspirational.
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- Fred
- 07-09-21
FANTASTIC STORYTELLER (and storytelling)
Each narrator was chosen to allow the listener to revel in Danticat’s skill as a storyteller! Exceptionally well done.
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- AuthorAnnaBella
- 10-26-20
A captivating story of Haitian culture and folklore told with a poetic flow.
Krik? Krak! is a compilation of stories depicting the rich, traumatic history and cultural heritage of Haiti. It speaks of Haitian life in Haiti and in the US. Each story intertwined, linking past & present reuniting them all in the end. These stories are packed with love, loss, belonging, hope, suffering and grief. Descriptively rich, pulling the reader in to live vividly through the eyes of each character.
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- Irene McIntyre
- 09-07-19
I like the narrator
But the stories are forgettable. I wanted to like it but I just didn't find anything to like...but the narrator.
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- Jessica
- 02-13-19
marvelous
it just doesn't get any better than this masterpiece. danticat's pen is a magic wand that performs a perfected craft.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 211
Award-winning, best-selling author Edwidge Danticat taps her exceptional storytelling gifts for this memoir of the two men who raised her. When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with the love and devotion of a father, despite facing many hardships in politically turbulent Haiti.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Superb Reflection
- By Chandra on 12-29-07
By: Edwidge Danticat
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The Dew Breaker
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker", a torturer, a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost, but not quite
- By Patricia on 06-15-04
By: Edwidge Danticat
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- By: Junot Diaz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Staci Snell
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,890
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,272
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,289
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wondrous Book!!!
- By Robert on 06-22-12
By: Junot Diaz
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 300
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 257
At the age of 12, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti - to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Narrator
- By Luis on 04-03-16
By: Edwidge Danticat
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The Farming of Bones
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 91
It is 1937 and Amabelle Desir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastien are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Warning:
- By Kindle Customer on 01-22-20
By: Edwidge Danticat
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Everything Inside
- Stories
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 218
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4 out of 5 stars 182
In these eight powerful, emotionally absorbing stories, a romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends; a marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences; a young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival; two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives; a baby's christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new; a man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I liked it but I wanted to like it more than I did.
- By Nath G. on 07-11-20
By: Edwidge Danticat
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Brother, I'm Dying
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 211
Award-winning, best-selling author Edwidge Danticat taps her exceptional storytelling gifts for this memoir of the two men who raised her. When the author was only four years old, her parents emigrated from Haiti to New York in search of a better life, leaving their daughter in the care of her uncle Joseph. A peaceful pastor in Port-au-Prince, Joseph raised Edwidge with the love and devotion of a father, despite facing many hardships in politically turbulent Haiti.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Superb Reflection
- By Chandra on 12-29-07
By: Edwidge Danticat
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The Dew Breaker
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Story4 out of 5 stars 109
From the universally acclaimed author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and Krik? Krak!, a brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker", a torturer, a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth lie hidden beneath his new American reality.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Almost, but not quite
- By Patricia on 06-15-04
By: Edwidge Danticat
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- By: Junot Diaz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Staci Snell
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,890
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,272
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,289
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wondrous Book!!!
- By Robert on 06-22-12
By: Junot Diaz
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The Art of Death
- Writing the Final Story
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Edwidge Danticat
- Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 32
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the best-selling author of Claire of the Sea Light. Edwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is an audiobook that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The art of death
- By barbara stevens on 07-14-17
By: Edwidge Danticat
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Behind the Mountains
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Ella Turenne
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gains a fresh resolve to be reunited with her father in Brooklyn, New York.
By: Edwidge Danticat
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Untwine
- By: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 100
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4 out of 5 stars 89
Giselle Boyer and her identical twin, Isabelle, are as close as sisters can be, even as their family seems to be unraveling. Then the Boyers are caught in a car crash that will shatter everyone's world forever. Giselle wakes up in the hospital, injured and unable to speak or move. Trapped in the prison of her own body, Giselle must revisit her past in order to understand how the people closest to her - her friends; her parents; and above all Isabelle, her twin - have shaped and defined her. Will she allow her love for her family and friends to lead her to recovery?
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1 out of 5 stars
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I don't like her voice
- By Zoey34 on 01-30-19
By: Edwidge Danticat
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Drown
- By: Junot Diaz
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 407
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 290
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Story4 out of 5 stars 289
With 10 stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey, Junot Diaz makes his remarkable debut. Diaz's work is unflinching and strong, and these stories crackle with an electric sense of discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Latino literature at its best!
- By Absinthe on 03-15-11
By: Junot Diaz
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We Need New Names
- A Novel
- By: NoViolet Bulawayo
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 249
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Story4 out of 5 stars 223
Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of Before. Before their homes were destroyed by paramilitary policemen, before the school closed, before the fathers left for dangerous jobs abroad. But Darling has a chance to escape: She has an aunt in America. She travels to this new land in search of America's famous abundance only to find that her options as an immigrant are perilously few.
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2 out of 5 stars
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African Girl Does US
- By FanB14 on 06-10-13
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A Woman of Endurance
- A Novel
- By: Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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