“Here comes the dress”

Edwidge Danticat’s 2004 novel, The Dew Breaker, braids together the interconnected lives of Haitian-Americans deeply affected by the tyrannical reign of the Duvalier dictatorship from the 1950s through the 1980s as they try to rebuild their lives and cope with their traumatic histories on foreign soil. This chapter analyses the novel to illustrate the link between creativity and healing after trauma.