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    Small Moments of Joy: The Millions Interviews Edwidge Danticat

    by Bill Morris Oct 30, 2019 3 minutes

    was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1969. At the age of 12, she moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where her mother worked in a factory and her father drove a taxi. Danticat’s 16 works of fiction and nonfiction have won numerous awards. She now lives in the Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, and she will be at the Miami Book Fair with her new collection of short stories, . We caught up with the bestselling author and MacArthur Fellow to talk about her latestthe Haitian-American experience, and small moments of joy.

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