Title: Breath, Eyes, Memory
First published: May 18, 1998
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Americans, Women travelers, Haitian Americans, Women, Travel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Haitianerin, Belletristische Darstellung, Domestic fiction, Large type books, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Haiti, fiction, Mother-daughter relationship, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life, Literary, Family Life, Mädchen, Wohnungswechsel, Mutter, Tochter
Places: Haiti, New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York, NY New York