![]() Danticat constantly toggles between the universal and the personal, the philosophical and the everyday, like someone for whom mortality has suddenly snapped into sharp focus. In one paragraph, the author is recalling her own brushes with death in the next, she's quoting French essayist Michel de Montaigne. ![]() There are vivid memories of her Haitian childhood, her mother's abiding faith and mischievous sense of humor, their many walks together down Avenue D in Brooklyn. Danticat writes: "I am writing this book in order to learn (or relearn) how one writes about death, so I can write, or continue to write, about the deaths that have most touched my life, including, most recently, my mother's."įramed as part of Graywolf's "The Art of" series - edited by Charles Baxter, in which important contemporary authors write critically about some aspect of creative writing (subtext, syntax, the poetic line and so on) - "The Art of Death" synthesizes literary exegesis and memoir. ![]() ![]() ![]() In "The Art of Death," she examines its long shadow in literature - in Toni Morrison, Anne Sexton, Haruki Murakami, Albert Camus, Leo Tolstoy, Michael Ondaatje, Joan Didion, Don DeLillo and more - and the power of words to help us process our experiences. ![]()
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