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The Book Show #1313 - Edwidge Danticat

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published September 17, 2013 at 3:06 PM EDT
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    Edwidge Danticat has written her first work of fiction in 9-years. Set in a seaside town in Haiti, Claire of the Sea Light unfolds over the course of one evening during which a father struggles with the painful decision of whether to give away his beloved daughter in the hopes she will find a better life with someone else.

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