Wow. That's all i can really say about this book. The stories were all great. I really enjoyed this book a lot. The last story was the best one but it was the worst. Now i understand why Anne stayed married to ka's father (who's name i can not remember right now). She never really learned the true story of what happened to her stepbrother although she always knew the story he told her about what happened was not entirely true. After finding out all of the horrible things he did to those people i would never have stayed married to him.
What i don't understand is why she put The funeral Singer story in the book when its not really interrelated to any of the other stories, aside from the people being from the same country. I really enjoyed this book. It was one of my favorites to read.
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ReplyDeleteThe way I understood Anne and Mr. Bienaimé’s relationship is that they both know the truth but do not want to accept it, or hear it. In the middle of page 241:
ReplyDeleteHe endorsed the public story, the one that the preacher had killed himself. And she accepted that he had only arrested him and turned him over to someone else. Neither believing the other nor themselves.
The only concrete connection I found between The Funeral Singer and the other stories is that Freda is from the same place in Haiti as Mr. Bienaimé, Léogâne (p. 167 & p. 235). I think that The Funeral Singer chapter is for all of the Dew Breaker’s characters though. In that chapter, Freda is singing her last funeral song for herself. It is the funeral of her as a funeral singer. I think the song could also blanket the rest of the book and be a funeral song for all the characters' past selves before leaving Haiti.