Krik? Krak!
Edwidge Danticat · 1995
Danticat's story collection about Haitian women, in Haiti and the diaspora, under Duvalier and after, gave voice to an experience almost entirely absent from American literature. The title comes from the Haitian call-and-response storytelling tradition.
The case against
Grief arrives in every story, by boat, by bayonet, by childbirth, and nine in a row produces a numbness Danticat probably did not intend. These are apprentice pieces, written in her mid-twenties, and a few lean hard on lyric phrasing where observation would carry more. The epilogue explains the book's design to you, as if the stories had not.
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