Event Description
Edwidge Danticat talks about We’re Alone, her recent book of essays that trace a loose arc from her childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, and include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin. The essays explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience, moving from the personal to the global and back again. Literature and art remain her reliable companions and guides through both tragedies and triumphs. 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.
Event Speaker
Edwidge Danticat, Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University
Event Information
Free and open to the public; registration required. For more information, please visit the event webpage. Please email [email protected] with any questions.
Hosted by Maison Francaise at Columbia University.
