Gloria Steinem Chair Roxane Gay & Edwidge Danticat: We’re Alone: A Conversation W/ Edwidge Danticat

Roxane Gay and Edwidge Danticat in conversation about Danticat’s new essay collection, We’re Alone. Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We’re Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gabriel García Márquez, and James Baldwin that explore several abiding themes: environmental catastrophe, the traumas of colonialism, motherhood, and the complexities of resilience.