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Barcode30293102423782
StatusIn Processing
LocationClark County
Call NoF Dant
TitleDey : a novel / Edwidge Danticat.
AuthorDanticat, Edwidge, 1969- author.
CollectionF
Total Circ0
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293102423782F Dant9/15/2026 In Processing 

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780593803530 electronic book
International Standard Book Number 9780593803523 hardcover
International Standard Book Number 0593803523 hardcover
Personal Name Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- author.
Title Statement Dey : a novel / Edwidge Danticat.
Edition Statement First hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2026.
Physical Description 233 pages ; 22 cm.
General Note "A Borzoi Book"--Verso.
Formatted Contents Note Run? -- Hide -- F(L)ight -- Dey.
Summary, Etc. "'Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?' These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami. When she hears gunfire while at a shopping mall, she takes shelter in a nearby restaurant, cowering with fellow shoppers and diners. Once she's safely home, Magnolia keeps this traumatic event from everyone. But given her life back, she begins to see everything clearly: her extraordinary bond with her daughter, Zoe; her nearly broken relationship with Zoe's father; the challenges of her mentally troubled mother, whose unraveling patterns Magnolia worries she's spiraling toward herself; and her father's affair with a woman who has borne him a child. While struggling through the labyrinth of her past, Magnolia must also come to terms with the losses sustained that life-altering day, and nearly every day by her parents and sibling in Haiti. Can love or family protect us from harm? Does optimism or fear win out in one's heart? Which side will prevail for Magnolia? Pulled between these questions, each of which involves a high-stakes choice--Miami or Haiti, single or married, mortal or ghost, before or after--Magnolia is a narrator who is 'yon pati koukouy, part firefly' flitting and shimmering between different worlds. Taking as its title a Haitian Kreyol word for mourning, Dey is a profoundly warm and moving novel about the importance not only of sharing grief but also of inseverable family ties"-- Book jacket flap.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Grief Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Psychic trauma Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Haitian Americans Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mass shootings Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Women real estate agents Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction.

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