Breath, Eyes, Memory

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