Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Copyright Date: 1995

Edition Date: 1996 Release Date: 04/02/96

Pages: 224 pages

ISBN: Publisher: 0-679-76657-X Perma-Bound: 0-605-32783-1

ISBN 13: Publisher: 978-0-679-76657-5 Perma-Bound: 978-0-605-32783-2

Dewey: Fic

LCCN: 94041999

Dimensions: 21 cm.

Subject Heading:
Haitian Americans. Fiction.
Haiti. Fiction.

Language: English

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Word Count: 43,625

Reading Level: 5.3

Interest Level: 9+

Accelerated Reader: reading level: 5.3 / points: 7.0 / quiz: 78260 / grade: Upper Grades

Reading Counts!: reading level:5.7 / points:12.0 / quiz:Q46959

Lexile: 880L

When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak! In her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty.

Children of the Sea
Nineteen Thirty-Seven
A Wall of Fire Rising
Night Women
Between the Pool and the Gardenias
The Missing Peace
Seeing Things Simply
New York Day Women
Caroline's Wedding
Epilogue: Women Like Us

Children of the sea
Nineteen thirty-seven
Wall of fire rising
Night women
Between the ppol and the gardenias
The missing peace
Seeing things simply
New York day women
Caroline's wedding
Women like us.