| DESCRIPTION: The CD Forum and the Elliott Bay Book Company present and evening
with award winning author, Edwidge Danticat.
Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States when she was
twelve. She is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an
Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The
Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner. She is also the editor of The
Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States and The
Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures.
In her newest book, The Dew Breaker, Ms. Danticat explores the world of a dew
breaker, a torturer, a man whose brutal crimes in the country of his birth
lie hidden beneath his new American reality. The Dew Breaker is a book of
interconnected lives, a book of love, remorse, and hope; of rebellions both
personal and political; of the compromises we often make in order to move
beyond the most intimate brushes with history. Unforgettable, deeply resonant,
The Dew Breaker proves once more that in Edwidge Danticat we have a major
American writer.
Ticket prices are $7 for adults and $5 for CD Forum members/students/seniors.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at The Elliott Bay Book Company located at
101 S. Main Street, Pioneer Square Seattle or call 206-624-6600 or through
Brown Paper Tickets at 1-877-278-4842 and on-line at www.cdforum.org. |
CONTACT NAME: Patty Pomplun or Denee McCloud |
