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**A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of *Claire of the Sea Light***Edwidge Danticat’s *The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story* is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work. “Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses,” Danticat notes in her introduction. “I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing.”The book moves outward from the shock of her mother’s diagnosis and sifts through Danticat’s writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel García Márquez’s *One Hundred Years of Solitude* to Toni Morrison’s *Sula.* The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat’s mother. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, *The Art of Death* is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it.words : 40561

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Author

Danticat, Edwidge

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555977771

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

4.12 / 5 (181 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13