Breath, Eyes, MemoryVintage Books, 1998 - 234 pages 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, where she gains a legacy of shame that only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her. 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 18 |
Section 2 | 22 |
Section 3 | 39 |
Section 4 | 50 |
Section 5 | 57 |
Section 6 | 77 |
Section 7 | 106 |
Section 8 | 114 |
Section 10 | 127 |
Section 11 | 134 |
Section 12 | 144 |
Section 13 | 166 |
Section 14 | 194 |
Section 15 | 201 |
Section 16 | 206 |
Section 9 | 120 |
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