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A Walk Through Carnival


A work of Non-fiction


Subgenres:

  • Travel Writing,
  • Memoir,
  • Haiti
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  • Memoirs exploring homecoming through festival traditions
  • Travel writing that blends personal memory with on-the-ground reporting
Publisher Description

A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection

Growing up in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat kept well clear of carnival—terrified by the stories of danger and debauchery that her uncle told her. Decades later, a grown woman and accomplished author, she returns home to find out what she's been missing.

In this selection from After the Dance, Danticat fuses her present-day observations with her own childhood memories and weaves a deeply personal reflection on the home she left behind. Through conversations with other attendees and her own deft reporting, she takes readers into the very heart of the festival.

A Walk Through Carnival is as much memoir as it is travelogue; and, in these pages, the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Brother, I'm Dying brings the electric spirit of carnival vividly to life.

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