The art of death
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Danticat moves outward from the shock of her mother's cancer diagnosis and sifts through her own writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly through works of literature which circle the many incarnations of death, from individual to large-scale catastrophes. She ends with a heartrending prayer in the voice of her mother.
AuthorshipMortality in literatureLiteratureDeath in literatureHistory and criticismLiterature, history and criticismNew York Times reviewedDeathPsychological aspectsFear of deathMurder in literatureInfanticide