>>host: edwidge danticat you compare your mother and christopher hitchens you compare and contrast. >> they were two very different voices. my mother was extremely religious, we read the bible together. but they were not sentimental about dying. and then to maintain the essence of humor. and then to say with both of them.. to question why me? and so why not me? and those are amazing ways. >> you opened with a relatively funny story. >> yes. initially both my mom and my dad and then downgraded. [laughter] but then with the book awards and then my mother. they were very proud. and then would give my books to every single doctor. and they wanted to know she wasn't just a body that christopher hitchens said i don't have a body but i am a body and my mother wanted to know she was more than a body. figured my book was shorthand. i kept thinking i was a doctor to help you more but it was one of her parting gifts to me that he valued my work. >>host: more and more of us are writing our own obituary. >> with social media so there is an interesting way through that. i know a couple people who h

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us now on the set at the center of the festival is author and national book award finalist, edwidge danticat your most recent