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The Farming of Bones
It is 1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic, across the border from her homeland. The Republic, under …
Att skörda ben
"Jag var på intet sätt beredd på den smocka jag skulle få." Sydsvenskan"En klassisk skildring av en traumatisk del i den karibiska historien." DNDominikanska …
Breath, Eyes, Memory
When her mother leaves Haiti to find work in the US, Sophie is raised by her aunt. Their parting, years later, when her mother sends for her, is as wrenching as the reunion in New …
Breath, Eyes, Memory (50th Anniversary Edition)
Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, with new introduction from Booker Prize winner Bernardine EvaristoAt the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian …
Plough Quarterly No. 26 – What Are Families For?
What is a family and what is it good for? Story 1: Families are in crisis, and the cause is moral breakdown. We urgently need a deep renewal of our family culture, supported by …
Everything Inside
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.AUGUST 2020 REESE'S BOOK …
Plough Quarterly No. 20 - The Welcome Table
Food – how it’s grown, how it’s shared – makes us who we are. This issue traces the connections between farm and food, between humus and human. According to the first book of the …
Plough Quarterly No. 29 – Beyond Borders
Can we move beyond borders that divide us without losing our identity? Over the past decade, the yearning for rootedness, for being part of a story bigger than oneself, has …
A Community of Equals
Examines the issues of immigration and equality in a democratic society
We Are All Suspects Now
The author examines the impact of changes to immigration policy and law after 9/11 on the nation's immigrant community by focusing on "Little Pakistan"--a community of 20,000 …
The Infamous Rosalie
Lisette, a Saint-Domingue-born Creole slave and daughter of an African-born bossale, has inherited not only the condition of slavery but the traumatic memory of the Middle Passage …
Claire of the Sea Light
Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father …