Comments on: Behind the Mountains http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439372992/ Browse our collection of literature Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:25:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: WOW Currents » Living Between Two Cultures: A Digital Literature Discussion of Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439372992/#comment-5787 WOW Currents » Living Between Two Cultures: A Digital Literature Discussion of Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:33:41 +0000 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439372992/#comment-5787 [...] Examples include A Step from Heaven by An Na (2001), Tangled Threads by Pegi Deitz Shea (2003) or Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat [...] [...] Examples include A Step from Heaven by An Na (2001), Tangled Threads by Pegi Deitz Shea (2003) or Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat [...]

]]> By: WOW Currents » Windows to the World — A Quick Look at Haiti http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439372992/#comment-5149 WOW Currents » Windows to the World — A Quick Look at Haiti Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:14:04 +0000 http://wowlit.org/catalog/9780439372992/#comment-5149 [...] Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat. This YA novel begins in Haiti with Celiane and her mother nearly being killed in bombings in Port au Prince during election time. The events in Haiti open her eyes to what is happening in her country. Her family then moves to Brooklyn to join her father. The reader is taken along on a journey of adjustment and acceptance as she begins her new life in a new country. Rated 2 in Horn Book Guide. [...] [...] Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat. This YA novel begins in Haiti with Celiane and her mother nearly being killed in bombings in Port au Prince during election time. The events in Haiti open her eyes to what is happening in her country. Her family then moves to Brooklyn to join her father. The reader is taken along on a journey of adjustment and acceptance as she begins her new life in a new country. Rated 2 in Horn Book Guide. [...]

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