{"product_id":"were-alone-essays-9781644453025","title":"We're Alone: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in \u003ci\u003eWe're Alone \u003c\/i\u003einclude personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides in both tragedies and triumphs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDanticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart, outrage, humor, clear thinking, and moral questioning, while reminding us of the possibilities of community. And so \"we're alone\" is both a fearsome admission and an intimate invitation--we're alone now, we can talk. \u003ci\u003eWe're Alone\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that asks us to think through some of the world's intractable problems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant novelists at work today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanticat, Edwidge:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eBreath, Eyes, Memory\u003c\/i\u003e, an Oprah's Book Club selection; \u003ci\u003eKrik? Krak!, \u003c\/i\u003ea National Book Award finalist; \u003ci\u003eThe Farming of Bones, \u003c\/i\u003ean American Book Award winner; and the novel-in-stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Dew Breaker\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays 2011\u003c\/i\u003e. She\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehas written several books for young adults and children--\u003ci\u003eAnac\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, and Untwine--\u003c\/i\u003eas well as a travel narrative, \u003ci\u003eAfter the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel. \u003c\/i\u003eHer memoir, \u003ci\u003eBrother, I'm Dying\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874906083602,"sku":"9781644453025","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9f42fcc-bf41-4bbf-bd7a-28ae03032b61.jpg?v=1756203502","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/were-alone-essays-9781644453025","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}