Edwidge Danticat Interview

Image | Edwidge Danticat

Caption: (Jonathan Demme)

This week, from Haiti and the United States, Edwidge Danticat. Her moving book, Claire of the Sea Light, is set in a Haitian fishing village before the earthquake.
"There's a proverb my mother is always saying, 'We're all walking with our coffins under our arms.' Some of us know it, and some of us don't." - Edwidge Danticat
​​The music to close the ​Edwidge Danticat Interview​:

CD: HAITI MON COEUR
Cut # ​​3 : "Mayi a gaye​"
Composer: Anon
Performer: ​Jorane
Label: ​INDEPENDENT HAITI 2010
Claire of the Sea Light is published in paperback by Knopf.