Interview with Edwige Danticat

Edwige Danticat is a Haitian American author raised in New York by her aunt and uncle. Danticat is the author of The Farming of Bones, a novel telling the story of a Haitian worker in Santo Domingo. Amabelle is a girl who became orphan since she was young and Danticat might feel identified with her since she was also a young orphan. For example the "characters spirit chase her, that probably might be that Amabelles experiences are identified with her experiences. However not many things have to do with her, when she writes she is constantly thinking of what to write. She has a "balance"to hi-light the events and drama to create around her characters. Aswell as in The Farming of Boner, her work is drawn to the conflict when Amabelle is a women who "fights"to return to Haiti, her native land.

Danticat writes about realities because the conflict comes in our case". Therefore, she has had unhappy stories in her life which are transmitted through her writings. The "story comes from"her experiences and she trying to understand the reason of things. "Going back"was Amabelle's dream, as well as Danticat, returning to her native land. She has been tied to her land, she is grateful for the identity that Haiti has given her and the proudness to represent Haiti. She want to come back to the place, "to create the country"she has been thinking.