Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American novelist and short-story writer our Members know very well: in 2014 we mentioned the film adaptation of her short story ‘Caroline’s Wedding‘ and we had reading groups for several of her books, including ‘The Farming of Bones’ listed in the Book Recommendations section on our dedicated page, En Route To Haiti.
Our goal is to promote Haitian culture (artists, writers,…) and a couple of weeks ago we read an article she wrote, published on The New Yorker, titled: ‘Sunrise, Sunset’, a short-story very well written we wanted to share with you, if you didn’t read it already.
In this new story, Danticat writes from the perspective of a grandmother who is losing herself to dementia, and of her daughter, who is struggling with her new role as a mother…
Here is how the story starts:
It comes on again on her grandson’s christening day. A lost moment, a blank spot, one that Carole does not know how to measure. She is there one second, then she is not. She knows exactly where she is, then she does not. Her older church friends tell similar stories about their surgeries, how they count backward from ten with an oxygen mask over their faces, then wake up before reaching one, only to find that hours, and sometimes even days, have gone by. She feels as though she were experiencing the same thing…
Read more on The New Yorker!
