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Acclaimed author headlines immigrant gala honoring former Miami Herald publisher
Three-time National Book Award finalist and celebrated Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat, known for her writings across cultural lines, will deliver the keynote address on Saturday at the Americans for Immigrant Justice’s 30th anniversary gala in Miami. Danticat, who has long worked alongside Florida’s immigrant rights groups, has a deeply personal connection to the group formerly known as the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center. Its founder Cheryl Little and lawyers played a pivotal role in helping her traverse the U.S. immigration system when her uncle, the Rev. Joseph N. Dantica was placed in U.S. immigration custody after fleeing violent gangs and a political uprising in Haiti. Dantica would die in U.S. custody. His ordeal would become the basis for his niece’s award-winning memoir, Brother, I’m Dying. The book was a National Book Award finalist for nonfiction in 2007. Danticat’s short story collection Krik? Krak! was a finalist for the prestigious prize in 1995. Danticat is once again a finalist, this time for her a newly released novel, Dèy, which tells the story about a woman who witnesses a violent shooting in a Miami mall but doesn’t tell anyone. The book also explores the relationship between Haitians living in the U.S. and those
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