"krik? krak!" contains nine stories as well as an epilogue. the stories take place in port-au-prince, haiti, ville rose, and new york. the stories are about women trying to understand their relationships to their families as well as haiti. the epilogue, "women like us", suggests that these women have a relationship with one another. the epilogue's unnamed narrator recognizes the similarity between herself and her mother as well as her female ancestors. these women all cook when they feel the need to express their sorrows and pain, but the narrator chooses to write despite her mother's disapproval. her mother feels that she could be killed because that is often the case with haitian writers. the narrator keeps her female ancestor's history alive through her stories.