Breath, Eyes, Memory
About this book
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
- americans
- belletristische darstellung
- domestic fiction
- family life
- fiction
- fiction / family life
- fiction, general
- fiction / literary
- haitian americans
- haitianerin
- haiti, fiction
- large type books
- literary
- mädchen
- metropolitan museum of art
- mother-daughter relationship
- mutter
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- tochter
- travel
- wohnungswechsel
- women
- women travelers