Edwidge Danticat Books in Order

Twelve-year-old Sophie leaves Haiti to join the mother she barely remembers in New York. Troubling family secrets and inherited shame complicate their reunion, sending her toward a reckoning with the women and traditions that shaped her childhood.

Nine stories trace Haitian lives shaped by political brutality, loss and enduring love. Women care for others across prison walls and separations, while imagination and storytelling offer ways to resist suffering and preserve connections despite oppression.

Haitian servant Amabelle plans a future with cane worker Sebastian in the Dominican Republic. The anti-Haitian violence unleashed in 1937 tears through their lives, forcing her to flee toward a homeland she scarcely remembers while searching for him.

Danticat returns to Haiti to confront her childhood fears of Carnival. Exploring Jacmel and its surroundings, she meets festival artists and organizers while tracing the island's history, connecting personal memory with the celebration's cultural and political roots.

After nearly dying in election violence, Celiane longs to reunite with her father in Brooklyn. Moving from rural Haiti brings new challenges as school difficulties, unfamiliar surroundings and her family's struggle to adapt complicate the reunion she imagined.

This anthology gathers essays and poetry by Haitian-American contributors reflecting on childhood, migration, return and the future. Danticat's introduction frames varied experiences of belonging, showing how lives move between Haiti and the United States across generations and languages.

A quiet Brooklyn barber's life as husband, father and neighbor conceals his past as a Haitian torturer. Interconnected stories move between Haiti and New York, revealing the effects of political violence on his family and those he harmed.

Through a fictional diary, young Taíno noblewoman Anacaona describes growing into leadership in fifteenth-century Haiti. Marriage, rival tribes and the arrival of Spanish explorers challenge her people, placing their traditions and survival under pressure from an unfamiliar invasion.

Danticat recalls the father who emigrated to America and the uncle who raised her in Haiti. Her first pregnancy coincides with her father's illness and her uncle's flight from violence, drawing family memory into an immigration crisis.

Danticat reflects on creating art in exile and the obligations of an immigrant writer. Personal memories and accounts of Haitian artists explore the risks of speaking against repression, preserving threatened histories and addressing audiences who also face danger.

Trapped beneath his collapsed home after a Haitian earthquake, Junior draws comfort from his imagination. Memories of kite flying, games and everyday life sustain him through eight days underground, keeping his connection to family and friends alive.

Seven-year-old Claire disappears as her father decides to send her away for a better life. The search through Haiti's seaside town of Ville Rose exposes intertwined histories, grief and secrets among neighbors connected by loss and longing.

A young girl learns from her grandmother about their family's mapou tree and its place in Haitian culture. Their shared story links generations through the tree's history, exploring heritage, endurance and the meaning held within the natural world.

Saya misses her mother after immigration detention separates them. Recorded bedtime stories offer comfort and connection, inspiring the girl to write her own account as her father struggles to reunite the family and bring Mama home.

After a car accident, sixteen-year-old Giselle wakes in hospital unable to move or speak. Recalling her bond with identical twin Isabelle and their family's strained relationships, she pieces together the tragedy while struggling toward an uncertain recovery.

Danticat reflects on her mother's terminal cancer alongside the ways other writers represent death. Combining personal history with literary criticism, she considers individual losses, collective catastrophes and the language through which writing attempts to reckon with mortality.

Eight stories follow families and lovers across Haiti, Miami, and other places shaped by separation and loss. Unexpected romance, broken marriages, and precarious reunions reveal how grief and survival can draw people together or drive them apart.

When a little girl feels ill or unhappy, her mother responds with hot chocolate, a bubble bath and affectionate attention. This picture book follows their comforting rituals, showing how care and closeness help a difficult day feel better.

Danticat's essays trace her development as a writer from a Haitian childhood shaped by separation from her parents. Reflections on literary relationships and her own creations explore the varied influences, memories and mentorships that contribute to an author's life.

Danticat’s essays move from her Haitian childhood to the pandemic and recent turmoil in Haiti. Personal experiences and tributes to literary mentors explore colonialism, motherhood, environmental catastrophe and the ways art helps people endure public and private upheaval.

On a chilly Miami morning, Leila’s grandmother warns her to watch for falling iguanas. Seeing one drop from a tree leads Leila, her friends and their teacher to investigate how cold weather affects the tropical creatures.

Surviving gunfire at a Miami shopping mall makes Magnolia reconsider the life she has kept hidden from her family. Her relationships with her daughter, estranged partner, and relatives in Haiti become entangled with trauma, grief, and belonging.