Sunday, January 18, 2009

1/23/09 Show: Edwidge Danticat & Michelle May

Join Gabi from Bread and Roses on KBOO 90.7 FM Community Radio, or on www.kboo.fm, Friday, January 23, 2009.

Edwidge Danticat is an award-winning Haitian American novelist. Her novels include Dew Breaker (2004), Behind the Mountains (2002), Farming of Bones (1998), Krik? Krak! (1995) and Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994). Her latest book Brother, I'm Dying tells the story of her uncle Joseph Danticat, who died in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security.

Michelle May is a world traveler off the main tourist path. Her latest trips took her to Kurdistan and Baluchistan in Iran. She spent her winter vacation shoveling mud in Gonaives, Haiti, a city still devastated by the hurricanes from September of 2008.