Krik? Krak! (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Edwidge Danticat
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Poverty or poor people, Violence, Storytelling, Women, Death or dying, Haiti or Haitians
Krik? Krak! opens with the story “Children of the Sea,” which consists of an “exchange” of letters between two young lovers. Hauntingly, the letters are written, but never actually exchanged, because the young man is on a small boat with a group of people who are trying to escape Haiti, where they are wanted by the police for speaking out against the government. The reader learns at the end of the story that the young man is being forced to throw his letters overboard to make the boat lighter, because it has sprung a leak. The reader also suspects that the boat and its...
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