Create Dangerously Av Edwidge Danticat

<p><b>An eloquent and moving personal account of art and exile from award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat</b><br><br>"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I''ve always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them."¿<i>Create Dangerously</i><br><br>In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Inspired by Albert Camus'' lecture, "Create Dangerously," and combining memoir and essay, Danticat tells the stories of artists, including herself, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them. Danticat eulogizes an aunt who guarded her family''s homestead in the Haitian countryside, a cousin who died of AIDS while living in Miami as