Behind the Mountains (First Person Fiction) - Softcover

Having left war-torn Haiti for a new life with her father in New York, Celiane finds her new environment shocking as she witnesses her parents struggle to make money, faces acts of violence at school, and learns to cope with the major adjustments of living in a place so different from her native home. Original.

Edwidge Danticat was born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, until she was twelve years old, when she moved to the United States to be reunited with her family. She published her first pieces of literary work just two years later. She has written many award-winning books, including BREATH, EYES, MEMORY, a member of Oprah's Book Club; KRIK? KRAK!, a National Book Award Nominee; THE FARMING OF BONES, an American Book Award Winner; and BROTHER, I'M DYING, a National Book Critics Circle winner. She is a 2009 winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant. Edwidge lives with her family in Miami, Florida.