"Courageous. . . . Beautiful. . . . The Dew Breaker is brilliant book, undoubtedly the best one yet by an enormously talented writer." --The Washington Post Book World
"Ms. Danticat's most persuasive, organic performance yet. . . . Each tale in The Dew Breaker could stand on its own as a beautifully made story, but they come together like jigsaw-puzzle pieces to create a picture of this man's terrible history and his and his victims' afterlife." --The New York Times
"Filled with quiet intensity and elegant, thought-provoking prose. . . . An elegiac and powerful novel with a fresh presentation of evil and the healing potential of forgiveness." --People
"Luminous. . . . This is a tale of crime and punishment in the great tradition of Dostoevsky." --The Baltimore Sun
"A devastating story of love, delusion, and history." --O, The Oprah Magazine
"Danticat's gift is to combine both sympathy and clarity in a moral tangle that becomes as tight as a Haitian community." --Time
"Breathtaking . . . With terrifying wit and flowered pungency, Edwidge Danticat has managed over the past 10 years to portray the torment of the Haitian people . . . In The Dew Breaker, Danticat has written a Haitian truth: prisoners all, even the jailers." -The New York Times Book Review
