Sacrifice and Immigration

Book cover of "Brother I'm Dying" by Edwidge Danticat



A word about a Haitian Immigrant, from a review on "Brother I'm Dying" by Edwidge Danticat:

review by Jes Row

...immigration often involves a kind of generational sacrifice, in which the migrants themselves give up their personal ambitions, their families, native countries and the comforts of the mother tongue, to spend their lives doing menial work in the land where their children and grandchildren thrive. On the other hand, there is the futility, and danger, of staying put in a country that over the course of Danticat’s lifetime has spiraled from almost routine hardship — the dictatorship of the Duvaliers and the Tontons Macoute — to the stuff of nightmares...

for complete review: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/books/review/Row-t.html