WE'RE ALONE Essays

Edwidge Danticat has a fine sense of language. This audiobook of essays testifies to a close reader and observer of human affairs. The famed Haitian American novelist, memoirist, and children's author is clearly a practiced narrator, and her delivery of the various French passages is musical. The essay topics range from the horrors of racism, the toll of hurricanes, and the inequity of climate change to appreciation for various writers she admires. These include James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, as well as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Zora Neale Hurston. Politics, too, haunts this collection with a searing profile of the 2021 assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. This fine collection creates an indelible portrait of a keen and remarkable mind. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: SEPTEMBER 2024]