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Edwige Danticat's New Children's Book Of Hope In Haiti's Rubble

First Posted: 09/09/10 04:44 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 06:35 PM ET

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Danticat has written a children's book about a 7-year-old boy named Junior who gets buried in the rubble of his Haitian home during the quake and is rescued eight days later. She tells NPR's Linda Wertheimer that she began writing the book, "Eight Days: A Story of Haiti," in an effort to explain the ordeal to her 5-year-old daughter.

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Danticat has written a children's book about a 7-year-old boy named Junior who gets buried in the rubble of his Haitian home during the quake and is rescued eight days later. She tells NPR's Linda Wer...
Danticat has written a children's book about a 7-year-old boy named Junior who gets buried in the rubble of his Haitian home during the quake and is rescued eight days later. She tells NPR's Linda Wer...
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jusathot
a mother from another mother
04:42 PM on 09/09/2010
Oh Edwidge, can't wait to read...