Event

Edwidge Danticat

The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and The Elliott Bay Book Company invite you to join us for an evening with award winning author Edwidge Danticat. Edwidge Danticat discusses her new work of fiction, The Dew Breaker. In much of the world's eyes, Haiti is a place of massacres, ruthless leaders, poverty, and continuing political strife. For Edwidge Danticat National Book Award nominee and author of the critically acclaimed Krik? Krak! and Breath, Eyes, Memory, it is a place steeped in mystery, magic and infinite courage. In The Dew Breaker, her new work of fiction, the young writer embraces both the beauty and tragedy that have marked her birthplace. This brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction 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. As Haiti celebrates itﾒs 200th year of independence, Edwidge Danticat's voice resonates more than ever in this remarkable story of family, heartbreak and new beginnings.