num_pages: 234
description: At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women 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.
language: English
title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
titlecomplete: Breath, Eyes, Memory
genres: Fiction, Historical, Coming Of Age, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 29639
places: New York (State), Haiti
publisher: Soho Press