Award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat has lent the rights to her short story ‘Caroline’s Wedding‘ to be adapted into a feature-length film.
Caroline’s Wedding is about the Haitian-American experience told through one family’s struggle to adjust to life in Brooklyn, and we retweeted the Kickstarter Project:
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Here are more information on the film adaptation:
Edwidge Danticat’s moving portrait follows Grace, a young Haitian-American living in Brooklyn with her widowed mother and younger sister. Grace has lived life till now with one foot in two cultures – on the one side, there is her mother’s world of Haitian traditions, cures and ceremonies for the dead; on the other, her sister, Caroline, who was born missing a forearm, lives a life of miniskirts and blonde-streaked hair. But all things come to a head when Grace gains her American citizenship and Caroline announces her engagement to a man her mother despises. Then, Grace has visions of her late father which causes elements of the family’s past to resurface and Grace is forced to examine where she fits in each world.
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