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Title details for Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat - Available

Breath, Eyes, Memory

by Edwidge Danticat
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At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets 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 a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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Publisher: Soho Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: July 1, 2003

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  • ISBN: 9781569477960
  • Release date: July 1, 2003

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  • ISBN: 9781569477960
  • File size: 852 KB
  • Release date: July 1, 2003
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Fiction Literature

Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:750
Text Difficulty:3-4

At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets 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 a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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Fiction Literature