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This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.\"--\u003ci\u003eCreate Dangerously\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, examining what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Inspired by Albert Camus' lecture, \"Create Dangerously,\" and combining memoir and essay, Danticat tells the stories of artists, including herself, who create despite--or because of--the horrors that drove them from their homelands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe writes about the Haitian novelists she first read as a girl at the Brooklyn Public Library, Jean-Michel Basquiat and other artists of Haitian descent, and a renowned Haitian radio journalist whose political assassination shocked the world. 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