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One Book Author, Edwidge Danticat, To Speak In November

October 2016

Edwidge Danticat

QCC is pleased to welcome Edwidge Danticat, author of Brother, I’m Dying, on November 17, to speak about her powerful memoir.

A memoir of her childhood in Haiti, where she grew up in her uncle’s home after her parents moved to America, The New York Times says Ms. Danticat “brings the lyric language and emotional clarity of her remarkable 2004 novel “The Dew Breaker” to bear on the story of her own family, a story which, like so much of her fiction, embodies the painful legacy of Haiti’s violent history, demonstrating the myriad ways in which the public and the private, the political and the personal, intersect in the lives of that country’s citizens and exiles.”

The presentation will be on Thursday, November 17, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Hebert Auditorium as part of the One Book program.

Brother, I'm Dying has received many awards and commendations, including the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, 2007 National Book Award Nomination and 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Ms. Danticat also received the 2009 MacArthur Fellows Program Genius Grant and the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

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