Episode 211 — Edwidge Danticat

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2013

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Edwidge Danticat is the guest. Her new novel Claire of the Sea Light (Knopf), is the official September selection of The TNB Book Club. Kirkus says “Claire of the Sea Light reads like the work of a writer eager to create another world . . . A sense of the possibilities is tangible, where Danticat delves into parenting, revenge, reconciliation and remorse. Claire Limyè Lanmè is the daughter of a widower who is mulling whether or not to let someone else raise his daughter. In this small town, other mothers and fathers are working through reconciling their feelings about parenthood while readers experience a day in her life. Simultaneously, Danticat masterfully weaves in necessary parts of the past.” And Time Out New York calls it "Breathtaking." Monologue topics: mail, corrections, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lucille Ball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:47.0	Edwidge Dantica is my guest.
1:52.9	She is a past recipient of the National Book Critic Circle Award as well as a MacArthur Genius Grant. Her brand new novel, Claire of the Sealight, is the September selection of the TNB book club,
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