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Behind the mountains

Behind the mountains

by Edwidge Danticat

2002Haitian AmericansDiariesEmigration and immigrationJuvenile fictionImmigrants
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About this book

Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

Themes & subjects

Haitian AmericansDiariesEmigration and immigrationJuvenile fictionImmigrantsFiction
First published 2002

Setting

HaitiBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)N.Y.) Brooklyn (New York

About the author

Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat

1969

Author

Edwidge Danticat

First published

2002

Pages

166

Read time

≈ 4h

Editions

8

Languages

English, Spanish

Publisher

Orchard Books

ISBN

9789580474814

Where to buy

TR
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