Elsie Augustave
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Elsie Augustave
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Elsie Augustave is a Haitian-American author. Her debut novel, The Roving Tree, follows a young Haitian adoptee, Iris Odys, through various journeys across the world. Odys is the rejected daughter of a Haitian maid and of the middle-class Haitian man who employs her. In addition to the struggle for identity of cross-cultural adoptees, the book explores themes of class, color and religion in Haiti. McArthur prize winner Edwidge Danticat described the book to The New York Times as "a gorgeous new
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Haitian-American author
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2023-08-19T17:34:09Z
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