The Dew Breaker

In this award-winning, bestselling work of fiction that moves between Haiti in the 1960s and New York in the present day, we meet an unusual man who is harboring a vital, dangerous secret. He is a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, we enter the lives of those around him, and his secret is slowly revealed. Edwidge Danticat's brilliant exploration of the "dew breaker"-- or torturer-- is an unforgettable story of love, remorse, and hope; of personal and political rebellions; and of the compromises we make to move beyond the most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as one of America's most essential writers.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/08/2005
ISBN: 9781400034291
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.64w x 0.56d

Review Citations: Kliatt 07/01/2005 pg. 19
Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 69
New York Times 03/27/2005 pg. 20
New York Review of Books 07/17/2008 pg. 40

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 78458 / Dew Breaker
Reading Level: 6.7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 10