The Dew Breaker turned out to be a very well thought out and very friendly journey through the inner workings of a few questions with the origin of feelings and persons. It betrayed the how many came to arrive in the United States from the tiny half island of Haiti, one of the oldest independant countries in the Western hemisphere, this was a story told backwards from the present to the distant past, when the untamed streets held different players, with very different (from us) ideals of station in life and place, I have read most of Ms. Danticat's novels and this one is by far the most adventurous. The use of language and imagery provides much of the color and accomodations for this journey, it was comfortable and enjoyable.