"No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness..."
- Edwidge Danticat
"They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Thainos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn i..."
- Junot Díaz
"The reader who is only superficially familiar with Caribbean affairs may find the materials of this volume strange. The extent to which violence, both open and covert, is a constant factor in the life..."
- Robert D. Crassweller
"If everyone could just live near the ocean, I think we'd all be happier. It's hard to be down about anything knee deep in the sand."
- Crystal Woods