“Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?”

We are pleased to welcome celebrated writer Edwidge Danticat back to The Center for Fiction for the launch of her new novel, Dèy, as part of this year’s Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. She will be joined by Monique Truong, author of the award-winning novel The Book of Salt. Danticat will sign books after the event.

Dèy tells the story of Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent who is caught in a random act of violence at a shopping mall in Miami—and decides not to tell anyone about the traumatic experience when she is safely home. In the aftermath of the event, Magnolia begins to reexamine her relationships with the people closest to her: her father; her daughter Zoë; Zoë’s father; and her troubled mother, whose unraveling mental health forces Magnolia to consider if she is also spiraling. Danticat expertly moves between various worlds throughout this vivid, timely story: those of mortals and ghosts, Miami and Haiti, single and married life. With profound warmth, she evokes the importance of shared grief and resilient family ties.

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