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Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat
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Region

Caribbean

Haiti

Era

Contemporary

Language

English

Genre

Fiction

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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.

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Danticat's debut; an Oprah's Book Club selection; the most widely read Haitian novel in English

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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. Danticat's debut; an Oprah's Book Club selection; the most widely read Haitian novel in English

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