Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Americans in a Time of Peril
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The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm Evan Osnos, sitting in for David Remick. For more than thirty years, Edwij Dandica has written about the experiences of Haitians and Haitian Americans. She's written fiction, memoir, and journalism. And in the New Yorker.
Dante has covered the impact of the Trump administration's campaign of mass deportation. Her new book is a novel set in Miami about a woman working as a real estate broker. She spoke about the book with my colleague staff writer Dorine San Félix. Edwin Dantika Inhabits many genres and forms.
In her latest novel, Dante Cop writes about Magnolia Ely, a woman in her ear thirties who moves from upstate New York to Miami and starts working as a real estate agent. And was living with her daughter and her daughter's father. She's also dealing with her parents' precarious situation back in Haiti in Quadebuque. Idri Jantika is the first Haitian writer that I ever read. And myself being a first generation Haitian American
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