Claire of the Sea Light
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction · 2014 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction | 2014 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Edwidge Danticat's novel is set in a coastal Haitian town on the night a young girl disappears, drawing together the stories of its inhabitants in a tapestry of love, loss, and survival. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal.
About the Author
Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist born in 1969 in Port-au-Prince. She emigrated to the United States at age twelve to join her parents in Brooklyn, and her work is deeply shaped by the experience of Haitian diaspora, the history of Haiti, and the intersection of memory, loss, and longing. Danticat is the author of numerous celebrated works, including Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994), Krik? Read more →
