{"title": "D\u00e8y", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL216748A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL46004992W", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\u201cIs home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?\u201d These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami. When she hears gunfire while at a shopping mall, she takes shelter in a nearby restaurant, cowering with fellow shoppers and diners. Once she\u2019s safely home, Magnolia keeps this traumatic event from everyone. But given her life back, she begins to see everything clearly: her extraordinary bond with her daughter, Zo\u00eb; her nearly broken relationship with Zo\u00eb\u2019s father; the challenges of her mentally troubled mother, whose unraveling patterns Magnolia worries she\u2019s spiraling toward herself; and her father\u2019s affair with a woman who has borne him a child. While struggling through the labyrinth of her past, Magnolia must also come to terms with the losses sustained that life-altering day, and nearly every day by her parents and sibling in Haiti.\r\n\r\nCan love or family protect us from harm? Does optimism or fear win out in one\u2019s heart? Which side will prevail for Magnolia? Pulled between these questions, each of which involves a high-stakes choice\u2014Miami or Haiti, single or married, mortal or ghost, before or after\u2014Magnolia is a narrator who is \u201cyon pati koukouy, part firefly\u201d: flitting and shimmering between different worlds.\r\n\r\nTaking as its title a Haitian Krey\u00f2l word for mourning, *D\u00e8y* is a profoundly warm and moving novel about the importance not only of sharing grief but also of inseverable family ties. Brave and striking, *D\u00e8y* is one of Danticat\u2019s most powerful and deeply affecting works yet, told with her signature \u201cunfaltering voice and evocative beauty\u201d (*The Boston Globe*)."}, "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-17T13:34:05.413749"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-17T13:34:45.895915"}}