Essays by Alumnae Edwidge Danticat and Suki Kim Featured in the New York Times
A recent New York Times special feature "The Next Wave," about the newest wave of immigrants reinventing New York City, featured 10 essays by transplated New Yorkers under age 40 and included authors Edwidge Danticat '90 and Suki Kim '92, who described their personal experiences in moving to the United States.
Prefacing the stories, the Times said, "When this modern surge of immigrants reinvents New York, as did their Irish, Jewish and Italian forebears a century ago, it is words like these that will be their Hester Street, their Lower East Side, their history, their myths."
Danticat's third novel, The Dew Breaker, was published to wide acclaim this year. She is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory , The Farming of the Bones and a collection of stories, Krik? Krak! . Kim's first novel, The Interpreter, was published last year. She has written literary essays for The Times , The New York Review of Books , and Newsweek .
To read Suki Kim's essay in the New York Times , click here. To read Edwidge Danticat's essay, click here.
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