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The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story

Edwidge Danticat

Danticat moves outward from the shock of her mother's cancer diagnosis and sifts through her own writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly through works of literature which circle the many incarnations of death, from individual to large-scale catastrophes. She ends with a heartrending prayer in the voice of her mother.

Arts & CriticismArts & Criticism · high confidenceArts & Criticism81 signalsLlm Classifier: Arts & Criticism -> Arts & CriticismOpen Library: Mortality in literature -> Arts & CriticismOpen Library: Literature -> Arts & CriticismLiterary BiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismMajor2017FinalistSecondary source
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