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Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American author known for her profound exploration of themes such as immigration, family, and identity. Her works, often set against the backdrop of Haitian culture, reflect her personal experiences and the broader social political issues surrounding them.

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“Perhaps Hurston saw in her mother, Lucy, a version of Persephone, who is so missed when she's gone that the world literally starts to die. This type of grief, as Toni Morrison writes in Sula, has no top and no bottom, "just circles and circles of sorrow.”

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Book:The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

“We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.”

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Book:The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

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“I sometimes feel as though we are all daughters of the same mythical mother. Some of us are super direct, funny. Others are pensive, inquisitive, maudlin, bitter, sarcastic, or a combination of all those things. Yet we have all been orphaned, except by our words, which we eventually turn to in order to make sense of the impossible, the unknowable.”

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Book:The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

“We cannot write about death without writing about life. Stories that start at the end of life often take us back to the past, to the beginning - or to some beginning - to unearth what there was before, what will be missed, what will be lost.”

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Book:The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

“Please remind them that none of us have all the time we think we have in this troubled but still beautiful world.”

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Book:The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

“Each death frames previous deaths in a different light, and even deaths to come. During the time my mother was sick, I found myself crying uncontrollably over the deaths of people I barely knew.”

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Book:The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Source: The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

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Born: January 19, 1969
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Quotes: 137

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