In Edwidge Danticat’s Dèy: A Novel, Haitian American Magnolia is caught in a random act of violence – and tells no one. After the trauma, she begins to see her life more clearly: her bond with her daughter, her nearly broken relationship, and the challenges of her mentally troubled mother. As she struggles, she must also come to terms with the losses of that life-altering day. Tayari Jones’ Kin: A Novel tells the story of Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, best friends and neighbors since early childhood but fated to live starkly different lives. For one, there´s a world of affluence, aspiration, and inequality; for the other, a perilous search for the mother who abandoned her, two very different paths that both speak to the complexities of being a woman in the American South. Moderating is writer and critic Jodi-Ann Burey.
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