Something Different: A Lost Edwidge Danticat Interview

During the release of an anthology entitled The Butterfly’s Way, that author Edwidge Danticat put together, I had a chance to interview her for a now-defunct online magazine called Native. By Richard Louissaint Imagine this scene: a grandmother of Haitian descent serving up stories to a group of children—many of whom are little nieces, nephews, and grandchildren—as they sit around her. Before the start of each story, the grandmother shouts “Kric!,” and only begins speaking, in her native language Kreyol, after the young audience responds with an affirming “Krac!” In the oral tradition of Haitian storytelling, these two phrases “Kric” …

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