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As a child, acclaimed author Edwidge Danticat was terrified by Carnival festivities - until 2002, when she returned home to Haiti determined to understand the lure of this famed event. Here she chronicles her journey to the coastal town of Jacmel, where she met with the performers, artists, and organizers who re-create the myths and legends that bring the festival to life. In the process, Danticat traces the heroic and tragic history of the island, from French colonists and Haitian revolutionaries to American invaders and home-grown dictators. Part travelogue, part memoir, part historical analysis, this is the deeply personal story of a writer rediscovering her country, along with a part of herself--and a wonderful introduction to Haiti's southern coast and to the beauty and passions of Carnival.

How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can’t help but feel she’s right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. They will also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding—the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will’s past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a very different future....

El romance más intenso de booktok. Un amor que ni la muerte podrá detener. Ash primero ve los faros de un coche. Luego siente un golpe terrible. Y después, aturdida, despierta en un lugar sorprendente entre la vida y la muerte. Pero la joven no está dispuesta a marcharse al más allá sin despedirse de su gran amor, Poppy. Desobedeciendo las leyes de este mundo, Ash conseguirá lo imposible: pasar unos días más con ella y, juntas, descubrir que la única manera de no morir es permanecer en el corazón de otra persona. Una historia de amor inmensa que desafía las normas de la vida y de la muerte.