(Paperback)

Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut novel, reissued as one of five titles celebrating Abacus's 50th anniversary, with a new introduction by Bernardine Evaristo

(Paperback)

My Mommy Medicine is a picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well, from renowned author Edwidge Danticat.

(Paperback)

Edwidge Danticat had long been scared off from Carnival by a loved one, who spun tales of people dislocating hips from gyrating with too much abandon, losing their voices from singing too loudly, going deaf from the clamor of immense speakers, and being punched, stabbed, pummeled, or fondled by other lustful revelers.

(Paperback)

Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them.

(Paperback)

When her mother leaves Haiti to find work in the US, Sophie is raised by her aunt. Their parting, years later, when her mother sends for her, is as wrenching as the reunion in New York. Though she barely knows her mother they both carry secrets from their homeland that will haunt them forever.

(Paperback)

A New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author brings diverse Haitian townspeople together in the search for a missing girl.

(Paperback)

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vividly imagined stories about community, family, and love.

(Paperback)

"With a new story by the author"--Cover.

(Hardback)

When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.

(Hardback)

A picture book about the comfort and love a mama offers when her child isn't feeling well.

(Paperback)

* A brilliant new novel on universal political themes in Haiti.
* An eloquent and powerful novel of interconnected lives which asks tough and emotive questions about life in a fascinating country.

(Paperback)

1937, and Amabelle Desir is a young Haitian woman working as a maid for a wealthy family in the Dominican Republic. Racial tensions are heightened when Amabelle's boss accidentally kills a Haitian in a car accident. The accident is a catalyst for a systematic round-up of Haitians, ostensibly for repatriation but in fact a prelude to slaughter.

(Paperback)

A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage.

(Hardback)

A collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage.

(Hardback)

Focuses on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. This title tells the stories of artists, including the author, who create despite, or because of, the horrors that drove them from their homelands and that continue to haunt them.

(Paperback)

Akashic stages a major coup in recruiting Edwidge Danticat, one of the truly great contemporary writers, to edit this volume.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The best anthology of classic Haitian fiction ever assembled, unparalleled in scope.