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We meet him late in life: a peaceful man, a great husband and father, a fixture in his Brooklyn community, a barber and landlord having a frightening scar across his face. Whilst the book unfolds, moving seamlessly between Haiti in the 1960s and Nyc today, we enter the lives of these around him, and discover he has additionally held an important, dangerous solution. Edwidge Danticat’s amazing search of the “dew breaker”--or torturer--s an unforgettable tale of love, hope, and regret; of political and individual rebellions; and of the compromises we make to maneuver beyond the absolute most intimate brushes with history. It firmly establishes her as you of America’s many important authors.