Children of the Sea | Imagery in Children of the Sea

In the following essay, Korb discusses the imagery in "Children of the Sea."

At the age of twenty-six, young for a writer, Edwidge Danticat has many honors credited to her name. Aside from publishing two books, the novel Breath, Eyes, Memory and a collection of short stories, Krik? Krak!, she has also received much critical acknowledgment. Her novel earned her recognition by the New York Times as one of the ''thirty young artists to watch," and it was nominated for a National Book Award in 1995. Krik? Krak! drew as many rave reviews; Publishers Weekly writes that it "confirm[s] Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted...

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