Night Women (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwidge Danticat
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: Ville Rose, a fictitious Haitian town
- Principal Characters: An Haitian prostitute, Her son, Emmanuel
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Mothers, Parents and children, Caribbean, Twentieth century, Prostitution or prostitutes, Poverty or poor people, Islands, Haiti or Haitians, Angels, Night, Heat
- Locales: Haiti
The Story
The narrator, a twenty-five-year-old Haitian prostitute, provides a first-person account of a night in her life as a night woman. It is a hot tropical night, the time of day she most dreads but must endure in order to live. She has just put her young son to bed in her tiny one-room house, with only a curtain separating his “bedroom” from her place of business. She has let him wear, as usual, his Sunday clothes in bed, along with her blood-red scarf, worn in the daytime to tempt suitors; thus he will always have something of hers near him when her face is out of...
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