The Dew Breaker

The Dew Breaker

"The Dew Breaker" is a novel by Edwidge Danticat, published in 2004. The title "comes from a Creole phrase which refers to those who break the serenity of the grass in the morning dew. It is a Creole nickname for torturer." [http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/personal/reading/danticat-dew.html] In this case, the "Dew Breakers" are members of the Tonton Macoutes, a group of volunteers who tortured and killed thousands of civilians under the regimes of François and Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti.


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