A prostitute tells her sleeping son that her “suitors” are the ghost of his father brought by an angel in a story by this author set in the fictional town of Ville Rose. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author who included “Night Women” and “The Children of the Sea” in a collection whose Creole title references a traditional way of requesting permission to tell a story.
ANSWER: Edwidge Danticat
[10e] Ville Rose is in this home country of Danticat, where she set many of the stories in Krik? Krak!. The book Tell My Horse chronicles research by another author into the voodoo traditions of Jamaica and this country.
ANSWER: Haiti [or Republic of Haiti or Republique d’Haiti or Repiblik d Ayiti]
[10m] A Danticat novel narrated by Sophie Caco is titled for these things along with “Breath” and “Memory.” This is the first noun in the title of a novel whose protagonist tells Pheoby Watson about her life in its frame story.
ANSWER: eyes [accept Breath, Eyes, Memory or Their Eyes Were Watching God]
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