Krik_ Krak! - Edwidge Danticat [57]
be with us. Many thanks to my mother and father for continued support. Thanks to the folks at the Brown University Creative Writing program, especially Karen Davies, Gale Nelson, Meredith Steinbach, Robert Coover, Paula Vogel, Thadious Davis, Aishah Rahman, and Rosemarie Waldrop, who were the first to see these stories. Thank you, Ann Birstein and Elizabeth Dalton. I owe so much to Melanie Fleishman for all your very hard work, to the wonderful gang at Clinica who became like family to me, to Jonathan and Ed for giving me a chance to learn so much about myself. To my aunt Grace and my cousin Magalie Adonis, my cousins, Betty, and Mendy, Esther for the braids, and to Nadine Gilles, sister of the yam. And to Paule Marshall, the greatest kitchen poet of all.
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
1. Children of the Sea
2. Nineteen Thirty-Seven
3. A Wall of Fire Rising
4. Night Women
5. Between the Pool and the Gardenias
6. The Missing Peace
7. Seeing Things Simply
8. New York Day Women
9. Caroline's Wedding
Epilogue: Women Like Us