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Edwidge Danticat

This individual narrates the book and struggles in childhood with being separated from parents and raised by relatives in a different country.

Bob Danticat

This individual is the sibling of a main individual who was raised by relatives with that main individual for part of childhood in a different country than their parents.

Joseph Danticat

This individual eventually becomes a pastor in Haiti and undergoes a radical laryngectomy as a treatment for throat cancer, which results in the permanent loss of the person's voice.

Mira Danticat

This individual, born in Haiti, moves to Brooklyn and eventually returns to Haiti to collect the person's other children. This individual suffers from a debilitating pulmonary disease that eventually leads to death.

Tante Denise

This individual helps to raise many children that are not their own in Haiti.

Rose Danticat

This individual moved to Brooklyn, New York, two years after their...

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