num_pages: 256
description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. 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. There she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti to the woman who first reared her.
language: English
title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
titlecomplete: Breath, Eyes, Memory (Vintage Contemporaries)
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: Turtleback Books