This month, Edwidge Danticat released her latest novel called Claire of the Sea Light. Set in a seaside Haitian town, one major topic she explores is the effects of environmental disasters on fishing villages.
In this interview, Edwidge tells The Coffin Factory that instead of being a “literary environmental” activist, she’s simply showing the unfortunate reality of a place where sometimes “the fishermen pull as much trash out of the sea as they do tiny fish.”
She also discusses the anxieties of motherhood, the negatives of being related to a writer, and the misuse of religion.
