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Dèy by Edwidge Danticat

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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence one sunny Florida day.

Magnolia has built a steady life in Miami as a successful real estate agent, mother, and daughter of Haitian immigrants — until gunfire breaks out at a shopping mall and she takes cover with strangers, waiting to find out if she’ll make it home.

She survives, but the encounter cracks something open. In the weeks that follow, Magnolia can no longer look away from the truths she’s spent years managing: her mother’s unraveling mind, her father’s second, hidden family, and the slow drift in her own marriage.

Danticat moves fluidly between Miami and Haiti, between the ordinary work of parenting and the harder work of mourning, to ask what actually holds a family — and a self — together when the ground keeps shifting.

Dèy takes its title from the Haitian Kreyòl word for mourning, and it earns that title by treating grief not as an ending but as something the living carry forward, together.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence one sunny Florida day.

Magnolia has built a steady life in Miami as a successful real estate agent, mother, and daughter of Haitian immigrants — until gunfire breaks out at a shopping mall and she takes cover with strangers, waiting to find out if she’ll make it home.

She survives, but the encounter cracks something open. In the weeks that follow, Magnolia can no longer look away from the truths she’s spent years managing: her mother’s unraveling mind, her father’s second, hidden family, and the slow drift in her own marriage.

Danticat moves fluidly between Miami and Haiti, between the ordinary work of parenting and the harder work of mourning, to ask what actually holds a family — and a self — together when the ground keeps shifting.

Dèy takes its title from the Haitian Kreyòl word for mourning, and it earns that title by treating grief not as an ending but as something the living carry forward, together.

  • Publisher: Knopf (Penguin Random House)

    Title: Dèy

    Author: Edwidge Danticat

    On Sale Date: August 25, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9780593803523

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $30.00

    Page Count: 256

  • Edwidge Danticat is a MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Her books include Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah’s Book Club pick; Krik? Krak! and Brother, I’m Dying, both National Book Award finalists (the latter also winning the National Book Critics Circle Award); and the story collection Everything Inside. Born in Port-au-Prince, she lives in Miami.

  • Critics and fellow bestselling authors are calling it illuminating, powerful, evocative:

    • “This delicate and wonderful novel draws beauty from heartache.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

    • “A powerful study of motherhood, nationhood, and violence.” —Kirkus Reviews

    • “Unfaltering voice and evocative beauty.” —The Boston Globe

    • “Danticat’s sentences are amazing.” —Hannah Jocelyn, The New Yorker

This book is for you if

  • You’re a longtime reader of Edwidge Danticat and have been waiting for her next novel.

  • You want fiction that moves between the Haitian diaspora and American daily life without simplifying either.

  • You’re drawn to stories about mothers, daughters, and the things families keep from each other.

  • You appreciate a novel that treats a single traumatic day as the door into a much larger life.

  • You’re looking for character-driven fiction with a strong sense of place, from Miami to Haiti.

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