01595cam a2200301 4500 540535592 TxAuBib 20150304120000.0 980526t19981994||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780375705045 037570504X (OCoLC)39180359 JBL eng JBL XBM SVP OCL XY4 DIV XY4 BTCTA UX1 OCLCG OTP EGM NNY BAKER YDXCP EDK DEBBG ORX PBU OCLCQ BDX GY8 TxAuBib Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Breath, eyes, memory / Edwidge Danticat. 2nd Vintage contemporaries ed. New York : Vintage Books, 1998. ©1994. 234 p. ; 21 cm. 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 she barely remembers. 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, suff. ering, and wisdom of an entire people. 20130415. Haitian Americans Travel Haiti Fiction. Women New York (N.Y) Fiction. Haiti Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction. Domestic fiction.