The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
The 1937 massacre the Dominican Republic buried.
you want to understand how a government erases an atrocity and what the survivors carry
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In 1937 Trujillo ordered the massacre of Haitian workers on the Dominican side of the border — up to 30,000 people killed, many by machete, identified by their inability to pronounce the Spanish word for parsley. Danticat tells the story through Amabelle, a Haitian domestic worker who survives. The most important fictional account of an atrocity that the Dominican Republic has spent decades minimizing. A dispatch about what happens to a community's memory when the state decides the event didn't occur.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Haiti • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Haitian author
- Themes
- War & Displacement
