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tanyxscreams's review
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Why do I make myself sad
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Death of parent
Moderate: Child abuse and Sexual assault
cmarie1665's review
4.0
i want to read all of her other books and all the books she mentions that i haven't read
nick_lehotsky's review against another edition
5.0
Gripping, profound, fulfilling. That's this book in three words! Danticat draws on the personal experience of grieving the loss of her mother, as well as writings about death from writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. One of my favorite reads this year.
davenash's review
4.0
Sometimes the best book give us excellent recommendations for other books.
In the Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat, combines her personal experiences with death, our shared experiences (9/11, earthquakes in Hati and Japan), and examples from literature to discuss how to write about different aspects of death.
The two best chapters where on national tragedies and suicide. I'm not sure how well any book can help you write, but here are some books I will be reading - After the Quake, The Bridge of Sane Luis Rey, The English Patient, and Searching for Mercy Street. Edwidge also references Hemingway (iceberg metaphor) and Hitchens (death with humor), but I'm good.
In the Art of Death, Edwidge Danticat, combines her personal experiences with death, our shared experiences (9/11, earthquakes in Hati and Japan), and examples from literature to discuss how to write about different aspects of death.
The two best chapters where on national tragedies and suicide. I'm not sure how well any book can help you write, but here are some books I will be reading - After the Quake, The Bridge of Sane Luis Rey, The English Patient, and Searching for Mercy Street. Edwidge also references Hemingway (iceberg metaphor) and Hitchens (death with humor), but I'm good.
shirleenr's review
4.0
4.25/5 on aesthetic narrative structural merits
5/5 - on heart. what threads these disparate chapters together, written often for varying news and magazine outlets, is that Danticat processes her mother's death of ovarian cancer. The continuity is not linear, but it's there. Danticat shares her grief and her fears, her dreams and even her mother's dreams, from diagnosis and initial chemotherapy and holistic medicine treatments until her mother's decline in hospice. She shares even the hours of her mother's last breath, her body transfer to a morgue, the year that follows. This endeared me most to The Art of Death . Thank you, Ms. Danticat. I'm grateful for your witness and testimony
5/5 - on heart. what threads these disparate chapters together, written often for varying news and magazine outlets, is that Danticat processes her mother's death of ovarian cancer. The continuity is not linear, but it's there. Danticat shares her grief and her fears, her dreams and even her mother's dreams, from diagnosis and initial chemotherapy and holistic medicine treatments until her mother's decline in hospice. She shares even the hours of her mother's last breath, her body transfer to a morgue, the year that follows. This endeared me most to The Art of Death . Thank you, Ms. Danticat. I'm grateful for your witness and testimony