Breath, eyes, memory / Edwidge Danticat.

Title:

ISBN:

9780375705045

9781616955021

Personal Author:

Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

Edition:

Second Vintage contemporaries edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Vintage Books, 1998.

Physical Description:

234 pages ; 21 cm.

Summary:

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, where she gains a legacy of shame that 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.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.6 8.0 25937.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction

Haiti -- Fiction

Subject Term:

Haitian Americans--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction.

Haitian Americans -- Travel--Haiti -- Fiction.

Women--New York (State)--New York -- Fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction

Audience: