We're Alone: Essays [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Danticat, Edwidge

ISBN 10: 1644453029 / ISBN 13: 9781644453025

Published by Graywolf Press, 2024

About this Item

New in new dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. New, unread copy with dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve. "Signed Strand Edition" sticker. Essays by the Pushcart Prize-, Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelist-, American Book Award-, Flaiano Literature Prize-, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-, The Story Prize-, National Book Critics Circle Award-, Dayton Literary Peace Prize-, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-, MacArthur Fellowship-, The Nicolas Guillen Philosophical Literature Prize-, Langston Hughes Medal-, OCM Bocas Prize-, Andrew Carnegie Medal-, PEN Oakland ? Josephine Miles Literary Award-, Neustadt International Prize for Literature-, and Vilcek Prize-winning author of "Brother, I'm Dying" and "Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work". rare signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: We're Alone: Essays [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1644453029
• ISBN 13: 9781644453025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience.

From hurricanes to political violence, from her days as a new student at a Brooklyn elementary school knowing little English to her account of a shooting hoax at a Miami mall, Danticat has an extraordinary ability to move from the personal to the global and back again. Throughout, literature and art prove to be her reliable companions and guides in both tragedies and triumphs.

Danticat is an irresistible presence on the page: full of heart, outrage, humor, clear thinking, and moral questioning, while reminding us of the possibilities of community. And so “we’re alone” is both a fearsome admission and an intimate invitation―we’re alone now, we can talk. We’re Alone is a book that asks us to think through some of the world’s intractable problems while deepening our understanding of one of the most significant novelists at work today.

About the Author

Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah's Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and the novel-in-stories, The Dew Breaker. She is the editor of The Butterfly's Way: Voices from the Haitian Diaspora in the United States and The Beacon Best of 2000: Great Writing by Men and Women of All Colors and Cultures, Haiti Noir and Haiti Noir 2, and Best American Essays 2011. She has written several books for young adults and children--Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, Eight Days, The Last Mapou, Mama's Nightingale, and Untwine--as well as a travel narrative, After the Dance, A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel. Her memoir, Brother, I'm Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She is a 2009 MacArthur Fellow.