Breath, Eyes, Memory
Edwidge Danticat · 1998
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About the book
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
First sentence: A flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my aunt Atie for Mother's Day.
Book details
- Year
- 1998
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Editions
- 17
- Pages
- 234
- ISBN
- 9780375705045
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