Haitian-American novelist Edwidge Danticat looks to ‘Create Dangerously’

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Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat has been busy, of late. She has two new books hitting bookstores this fall: Eight Days is a children’s book about a boy trapped in the rubble after the earthquake in Haiti, and ‘Create Dangerously’ is a book of reflections on the task of the immigrant writer.

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