Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat& rsquo\;s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti\, t he essays gathered in We&rsquo\;re Alone include personal narrative\, repo rtage\, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison\, Paule M arshall\, Gabriel Garcí\;a Má\;rquez\, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe\, the traumas of colonialism\, motherhood\, and the complexities of resilience.
\nFr om hurricanes to political violence\, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shoo ting hoax at a Miami mall\, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout\, literature an d art prove to be her reliable companions and guides in both tragedies and triumphs.
\nDanticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart\, outrage\, humor\, clear thinking\, and moral questioning\, whil e reminding us of the possibilities of community. And so &ldquo\;We&rsquo\ ;re Alone&rdquo\; is both a fearsome admission and an intimate invitation& mdash\;we&rsquo\;re alone now\, we can talk. "We&rsquo\;re Alone" is a boo k that asks us to think through some of the world&rsquo\;s intractable pro blems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant nov elists at work today. ~From the Publisher.
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EDWIDGE DANTICAT is \; the author of several books\, including "Breath\, Eyes\, Memory\," an Opra h Book Club selection\, "Krik? Krak!\," a National Book Award finalist\, " The Farming of Bones\," "The Dew Breaker\," "Brother\, I&rsquo\;m Dying\," "Create Dangerously\," "Claire of the Sea Light\," "The Art of Death\," " Everything Inside\," a Reese&rsquo\;s Book Club selection and National Boo k Critics Circle Awards winner. She is also the editor of "The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States\," \; "Bes t American Essays 2011\," \; "Haiti Noir\," and "Haiti Noir 2." She ha s written seven books for children and young adults: "Anacaona\," "Behind the Mountains\," "Eight Days\," "The Last Mapou\," "Mama's Nightingale\," "Untwine\," "My Mommy Medicine\," and a travel narrative\, "After the Danc e." Her memoir\, "Brother\, I'm Dying\," was a 2007 finalist for the Natio nal Book Award and a \;2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circl e Award for autobiography. \;She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow\, a 2018 Ford Foundation &ldquo\;Art of Change&rdquo\; fellow\, the winner of the 2 018 Neustadt International Prize\, the 2019 St. Louis Literary Award\, the 2011 Bocas Nonfiction Prize and 2020 Bocas Fiction Prize\, the 2020 Vilce k Prize for Literature\, a 2020 United States Artists Fellow\, a two-time winner of The Story Prize\, and the 2023 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story. \;Her essay collection\, "We&rsquo\;re Alone\," w ill be published in September 2024. She teaches at Columbia University.
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