It took me a while to figure out what this book was “about.” It wasn’t until the second chapter (“Brother, I’m Dying”) that I realized this was going to be a family history of sorts, focused specifically on Uncle Joseph and the father. At the end of chapter one, when Danticat tells us, “I [...]
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Circling the center
Posted in Places Left Unfinished, character, voice, tagged dreams, family history, ghosts, macrocosm, microcosm, mysticism on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At some points, Santos’ memoir read like “a strange sanctuary devoted to the memory of an accidental death” (171). At others, I got the feeling of accompanying someone on an exhaustive quest, driven “by the Creator to walk twenty-four miles a day” (48). My favorite moments, however, were those in which I could simply bear [...]
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