Title Breath, eyes, memory / Edwidge Danticat.

Publication Info.	New York : Vintage Books, 1998.
	©1994

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS3554.A5815 B74 1998	Available	---

Edition	2nd Vintage contemporaries ed.
Description	236 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. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know and where she gains a legacy of shame that can 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.
Subject	Haitian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
	Haitian Americans.
	New York (State) -- New York.
Genre/Form	Fiction.
Subject	Haitian Americans -- Travel -- Haiti -- Fiction.
	Haitian Americans -- Travel.
	Haiti.
	Women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
	Women.
	New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
	National Book Committee.
	Haiti -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Domestic fiction.
	Domestic fiction.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	037570504X
	9780375705045