The United States of Fear

In Edwidge Danticat’s “Dèy,” a mother survives a mass shooting but finds that the ordinary demands of life won’t wait.

The Tuesday Review

(Knopf)

While I read Edwidge Danticat’s new novel about gun violence, six members of a family died by gunfire in Winfield, Kansas; another five were massacred near Lake City, Michigan.

It’s unlikely you heard much about these shootings. Held captive by the Supreme Court’s misreading of the Constitution and the deadly influence of the gun…