This author worked with Jonathan Demme on the documentary The Agronomist. In a work by this author, the word parsley cannot be pronounced correctly by the two main characters, a sugarcane cutter named Sebastian and a maidservant named Amabelle. The short story "Nineteen Thirty-Seven" follows a woman imprisoned and starved d
This author worked with Jonathan Demme on the documentary The Agronomist. In a work by this author, the word parsley cannot be pronounced correctly by the two main characters, a sugarcane cutter named Sebastian and a maidservant named Amabelle. The short story "Nineteen Thirty-Seven" follows a woman imprisoned and starved during a witch hunt and is found in a collection that follows the inhabitants of the town Ville Rose across several generations, entitled Krik? Krak!. The title of her most recent serious novel refers to the members of the Tonton Macoutes, and her most famous work tells the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Sophie, who comes to New York to be with Martine, her insomniac mother. FTP, name this author of Farming of Bones, Dew Breaker and Breath, Eyes, Memory who was born in Haiti.
This author worked with Jonathan Demme on the documentary The Agronomist.
Edwidge Danticat