A review by maria_rb
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

4.0

Danticat is one of my favorite authors. And yet, I struggle to characterize the complexity, pain, and joy found in this collection of short stories. It is worth the read, and one that I will return to again and again over the years, but is difficult to convey in MY words what makes it so special. The fact that the stories seem to be independent of each other until the end, or the multiple perspectives (POV) offered, or the emotions conveyed through descriptions of objects all work together to make this another thoughtful work of hers. My favorite character of hers will always be Amabelle, in The Farming of Bones, and the lyric poetry in that novel always sucks me in, but this collection of short stories is also staggering in its ability to capture pain and emotion and regret and everything that makes us human.