num_pages: 312
description: It is 1937, the Dominican side of the Haitian border. Amabelle, orphaned at the age of eight when her parents drowned, is a maid to the young wife of an army colonel. She has grown up in this household, a faithful servant. Sebastien is a field hand, an itinerant sugarcane cutter. They are Haitians, useful to the Dominicans but not really welcome. There are rumors that in other towns Haitians are being persecuted, even killed. But there are always rumors.Amabelle loves Sebastien. He is handsome despite the sugarcane scars on his face, his calloused hands. She longs to become his wife and walk into their future. Instead, terror enfolds them. But the story does not end here: it begins.The Farming of Bones is about love, fragility, barbarity, dignity, remembrance, and the only triumph possible for the persecuted: to endure.
language: English
title: The Farming of Bones
titlecomplete: The Farming of Bones
genres: Historical, Literature, 20th Century, School, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 9046
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: American Book Award
publisher: Soho Press