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We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and New York City today, we enter the lives of those around him, and learn that he has also kept a vital, dangerous secret. Edwidge Danticat’s brilliant exploration of the “dew breaker”—or torturer—s an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America’s most essential writers.
Each tale in The Dew Breaker could stand on its own as a beautifully made story, but they come together like jigsaw-puzzle pieces to create a picture of this man's terrible history and his and his victims' afterlife. Some of the puzzle pieces are missing of course, but this is a matter of design. It is a measure of Ms. Danticat's fierce, elliptical artistry that she makes the elisions count as much as her piercing, indelible words. — Michiko Kakutani
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Frank Raue
reviewed The Dew Breaker on January 18, 2017
The Dew Breaker
"Aline had never imagined that people like Beatrice existed, men and women whose tremendous agonies filled every blank space in their lives. Maybe there were hundred, even thousands, of people like this, men and women chasing fragments of themselves long lost to others."
Although this quote appears later in the book, it sums up succinctly what these linking stories encompass. People who were tortured by the Dew Breaker, or family members were, people who think they see him and even the people who live with him. None are without inner scars that have had a profound effect on their lives. Going from New York city today, or back to Haiti in the 1960's, all these stories are powerfully told. The first story starts with the Dew Breaker in the states and the last story ends with the Dew Breaker, and what exactly he did in Haiti. The stories come together like the joined pieces of a puzzle and give a glimpse of the current and in some cases past lives of these people.
Love and hope, remorse and the compromises many have to make to find and go on living a life after they have lost so much. Touching and profound, will be reading more from Danticat.
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