Edwidge Danticat

Sophie Caco, raised in Haiti, joins her mother in New York at twelve. The novel explores trauma, the body, Haitian traditions of female testing, and the possibilities of healing across generations and between two worlds.

A memoir about Danticat's father and uncle, two brothers separated by migration, and their parallel deaths in 2004, one from illness, the other in US immigration detention after Hurricane Ivan. A profound meditation on family and American policy toward Haiti.

Based on the 1937 Parsley Massacre when Trujillo's forces killed tens of thousands of Haitian sugar cane workers in the Dominican Republic. Amabelle survives and must find a way to live.