Breath, eyes, memory
By: Edwidge Danticat
Edition: 2nd Vintage contemporaries ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780375705045
Subjects: Travel; Fiction; Haitian Americans; Women
Description: 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.