We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you.
Edwidge DanticatWrite what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .
Edwidge DanticatWhole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.
Edwidge Danticat