Breath Eyes Memory
by Edwidge Danticat
A Haitian girl carries her mother's trauma in her own body.
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Sophie grows up in Haiti with her grandmother, then joins her mother in New York — a mother she barely knows, traumatized in ways she can't speak about. Danticat writes about the female body as the site where Haitian history is stored and transmitted — the testing, the silence, the nightmares that pass from mother to daughter. Her debut novel. The dispatch from inside the Haitian immigrant experience that introduced Danticat to the world and introduced the world to what Haitian women carry.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Haiti • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Haitian author
- Themes
- GenerationsWitness
