The fawning went on. I sometimes lost count of the loss, my body spoke from the mirror in one stunned glance. Invasion is perhaps the most important theme in Breath, Eyes, Memory . Both the rape and the testing permeate the entire novel. The poem, Warrior Daughters by Collette Inez, also expresses some of the same emotions that Sophie Caco does by telling about another kind of testing, namely a pap smear.
Some women marry houses.
The walls are permanent and pink. See how she sits on her knees all day, faithfully washing herself down. Men enter by force, drawn back like Jonah into their fleshy mothers. A woman is her mother. That's the main thing.