Dew Breaker

Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat

3 of 5 stars

This story revolves around a dew breaker (a Haitian prison guard skilled in torture and other coersion methods), his family, and the other people whose lives he has touched. I liked the story, but aside from the dew breaker himself, everyone else was about as deep as a carboard cutout. I wish this book would have developed the other characters, like his daughter, more thoroughly. I really liked the Reader's Digest version of the political situation at this time in Haitian history provided by this story, though.