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by Edwidge Danticat

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Home, family, and a shaken sense of self

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Longlisted for the National Book Award
Longlisted for the National Book Award.

Home, family, and a shaken sense of self

A sudden act of violence at a Miami shopping mall becomes the hinge for Magnolia’s questions about belonging and family. A successful Haitian American real estate agent, she keeps the experience from those closest to her; its aftermath brings her bond with her daughter into sharper view. Moving among Haiti, Brooklyn, and Miami, the novel places one woman’s private reckoning within a story shaped by migration, home, and the ties that define identity.

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Readers interested in stories about Haitian American identity and migration.
Readers drawn to family relationships and questions of home and belonging.
Readers seeking literary fiction centered on a woman’s response to violence.

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Home and belongingHaitian American identityMother-daughter bondsViolence and its aftermath

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence one sunny Florida day.

"Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?" These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami. When she hears gunfire while at a shopping mall, she takes shelter in a nearby restaurant, cowering with fellow shoppers and diners. Once she's safely home, Magnolia keeps this traumatic event from everyone. But given her life back, she begins to see everything clearly: her extraordinary bond with her daughter, Zo

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