Description

In these eight searing stories, a diaspora of characters—spelled by some as “dyaspora”—moves through love and betrayal, grief and endurance, and the complicated hope that can survive even the worst losses. With a rising intensity that grips from the first lines, the collection follows people confronting death in intimate, often unexpected ways: a caregiver pulled into a web of kidnapping and wrongdoing, a daughter forced to face her father’s final moments, and others who must decide what they will protect when everything is slipping away. Danticat’s work is marked by lyrical precision and emotional immediacy, turning private pain into a larger meditation on family, memory, moral reckoning, and the possibility of redemption. *Everything Inside* is a testament to how deeply we carry one another—and how, sometimes, the only way forward is to look directly at what’s inside the heart, the home, and the self.

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hardcover

Knopf

Published Aug 27, 2019

240 pages

ISBN: 9780525521273

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First Published

2019

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat.

Death/Grief
War/Trauma