The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat

In October 1937, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina—one of Latin America’s most brutal dictators—directly ordered the execution of all Haitians then living in the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic. People suspected of being Haitian were asked to...

The plot of most novels is said to have layers which generally fall in the structure of rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. These layers are all parts that centralize around a type of conflict, such as individual versus self or...