August '20 Pick

Everything Inside

Edwidge Danticat

A romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences. A young woman holds on to an impossible dream...

Everything Inside

A romance unexpectedly sparks between two wounded friends. A marriage ends for what seem like noble reasons, but with irreparable consequences. A young woman holds on to an impossible dream even as she fights for her survival. Two lovers reunite after unimaginable tragedy, both for their country and in their lives. A baby’s christening brings three generations of a family to a precarious dance between old and new. A man falls to his death in slow motion, reliving the defining moments of the life he is about to lose. Set in locales from Miami and Port-au-Prince to a small unnamed country in the Caribbean and beyond, here are eight emotionally absorbing stories, rich with hard-won wisdom and humanity. At once wide in scope and intimate, Everything Inside explores with quiet power and elegance the forces that pull us together or drive us apart, sometimes in the same searing instant.

From Our Book Lover-In-Chief

These eight, incredibly well written stories centered around women dealing with love, loss, tragedy...I felt so moved, truly transported into another world

Anybody else love short stories!? This month for Reese's Book Club, we are reading Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat. It’s a collection of eight beautiful stories shaped by different Haitian women’s experience with love and loss. I chose this book as our August book pick because I was so moved by the resilience and strength that these women exemplified. It’s such an empowering read that taught me a lot about intricacies of Haitian culture. I’m really looking forward to discussing it and learning which story is your favorite!



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