Dèy
A Novel
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Dèy
Narrated by:
Melinda Sewak
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Edwidge Danticat
“Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?” These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami. When she hears gunfire while at a shopping mall, she takes shelter in a nearby restaurant, cowering with fellow shoppers and diners. Once she’s safely home, Magnolia keeps this traumatic event from everyone. But given her life back, she begins to see everything clearly: her extraordinary bond with her daughter, Zoë; her nearly broken relationship with Zoë’s father; the challenges of her mentally troubled mother, whose unraveling patterns Magnolia worries she’s spiraling toward herself; and her father’s affair with a woman who has borne him a child. While struggling through the labyrinth of her past, Magnolia must also come to terms with the losses sustained that life-altering day, and nearly every day by her parents and sibling in Haiti.
Can love or family protect us from harm? Does optimism or fear win out in one’s heart? Which side will prevail for Magnolia? Pulled between these questions, each of which involves a high-stakes choice—Miami or Haiti, single or married, mortal or ghost, before or after—Magnolia is a narrator who is “yon pati koukouy, part firefly”: flitting and shimmering between different worlds.
Taking as its title a Haitian Kreyòl word for mourning, Dèy is a profoundly warm and moving novel about the importance not only of sharing grief but also of inseverable family ties. Brave and striking, Dèy is one of Danticat’s most powerful and deeply affecting works yet, told with her signature “unfaltering voice and evocative beauty” (The Boston Globe).
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Critic reviews
“A searching work from one of our most gifted and consistent writers.”
—The Boston Globe
“Edwidge Danticat is an author whose work truly captures the Haitian American immigrant experience with prose that is so languid and all-consuming that one never wants to be released from its grasp. In her first novel in over a decade, she offers a beautiful exploration of migration, gentrification and political instability. . . . A story that allows us to reassess love and grief, Dèy is a novel of now.”
—NPR
“As books editors at this magazine, you care about a good turn of phrase. Which books are you excited about, on a sentence level? For me, it’s Dèy, by Edwidge Danticat, also coming August 25th—her first novel in a decade. Danticat’s sentences are amazing.”
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker
“Illuminating. . . . Danticat delivers a resounding testament to the strength gained by sharing, whether in celebration, fear, grief, or family memories. This delicate and wonderful novel draws beauty from heartache.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“As ever, Danticat is gifted at capturing the nuances of the Haitian diaspora, undoing simplistic depictions of the country’s struggles, and using language to show how various elements of her characters’ identities intersect. . . . A powerful study of motherhood, nationhood, and violence.”
—Kirkus Reviews
—The Boston Globe
“Edwidge Danticat is an author whose work truly captures the Haitian American immigrant experience with prose that is so languid and all-consuming that one never wants to be released from its grasp. In her first novel in over a decade, she offers a beautiful exploration of migration, gentrification and political instability. . . . A story that allows us to reassess love and grief, Dèy is a novel of now.”
—NPR
“As books editors at this magazine, you care about a good turn of phrase. Which books are you excited about, on a sentence level? For me, it’s Dèy, by Edwidge Danticat, also coming August 25th—her first novel in a decade. Danticat’s sentences are amazing.”
—Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker
“Illuminating. . . . Danticat delivers a resounding testament to the strength gained by sharing, whether in celebration, fear, grief, or family memories. This delicate and wonderful novel draws beauty from heartache.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“As ever, Danticat is gifted at capturing the nuances of the Haitian diaspora, undoing simplistic depictions of the country’s struggles, and using language to show how various elements of her characters’ identities intersect. . . . A powerful study of motherhood, nationhood, and violence.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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