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Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American author.
Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. When she was two years old, her father André immigrated to New York, to be followed two years later by her mother Rose. This left Danticat and her younger brother Eliab to be raised by her aunt and uncle. Although her formal education in Haiti was in French, she spoke Kreyòl at home.
While still in Haiti, Danticat wrote her first short story about a girl who was visited by a clan of women each night.[citation needed] At the age of 12, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, to join her parents in a heavily Haitian American neighborhood. As she was an immigrant teenager, Edwidge's accent and upbringing were a source of discomfort for her, thus she turned to literature for solace.[citation needed] Two years later she published her first writing, in English, "A Haitian-American Christmas: Cremace and Creole Theatre," in New Youth Connections, a citywide magazine written by teenagers. She later wrote a story about her immigration experience for New Youth Connections, "A New World Full of Strangers." In the introduction to Starting With I, an anthology of stories from the magazine, Danticat wrote, “When I was done with the [immigration] piece, I felt that my story was unfinished, so I wrote a short story, which later became a book, my first novel: Breath, Eyes, Memory…. Writing for New Youth Connections had given me a voice. My silence was destroyed completely, indefinitely.”
Plot
George Gorgeous, a religious controversial politician from Florida is shot to death. Fulfilled with the accomplishments of his life, George performs sacred acts to prepare himself for heaven under the conviction he earned a place in it. In his passage to the beyond, George gets confused when he is received by two ethnic women from his community. In order to advance to the next phase, George has to leave his prized belongings behind causing him to question his expectations. He decides to continue. As George crosses the next phase, he encounters three entities: Holly, a transsexual... Joshua, a homeless man...and Martha, a young mother. George feels he is being judged by them, even though he considers himself almost a saint. He does not understand why he has been placed in such position, but the entities explain to George that they are just there to guide him through his journey. George begins to questions his beliefs when he is forced to face the truth about the moments that defined his life and for those around him. George discovers he is far from being an honorable man and wants another chance to make things right. George is devastated and realizes he has been wrong about his life. He is presented with the paths he can take, but George's guilt blinds him. He feels he can be a better man and pleads for another chance to redeem his past. George acknowledges the real meaning of this experience, but he believes he cannot move forward even though he wants to earn his place in heaven. So he makes a choice driven by remorse.
Keywords: i-was-practically-a-saint-in-my-life
Am I being Judged?
Plot
When Mr. and Mrs. Myers move into their highly coveted Beverly Hills home, they wonder why the price tag is too good to be true. Their daughter, Danielle, discovers the truth when a neighbor tells her one of the previous owners was murdered there years ago. When Danielle falls prey to the hauntings of the ghostly victim who lived there, Danni's dream home turns into the house from hell after she is tortured and attacked by the evil apparition. After Danielle's cries go unheard by her oblivious parents, she realizes she must get out of the house as quickly as possible or she is going to be the next victim of an even greater threat.
Keywords: curse, death, dream, ghost, haunting, legend, murder, neighbor, nightmare, sex
Nothing comes without a price...
Plot
Terrorists seize an American nuclear missile site and threaten to launch the missiles at Washington unless the President resigns immediately and $1 billion is placed in a Swiss account in 8 hours.
Keywords: abandoned-mine, action-hero, airplane, ak-47, ambush, assassin, assassination, assassination-attempt, babe-scientist, battle