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Breath, eyes, memory / Edwidge Danticat.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Danticat Breath
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haitian Americans--Fiction.
- Haitian Americans.
- Women travelers--Fiction.
- Women travelers.
- Women--Haiti--Fiction.
- Women.
- Women--New York (State)--Fiction.
- Haiti.
- New York (State).
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- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Soho Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti--to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary debut, Danticat evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage"-- Provided by publisher
- Notes:
- Includes reader's guide.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 28
- ISBN:
- 9781616955021
- 1616955023
- OCLC:
- 880756386
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