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Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

Paperback | Pages: 234 pages

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Title	:	Breath, Eyes, Memory
Author	:	Edwidge Danticat
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 234 pages
Published	:	May 18th 1998 by Vintage (first published April 1st 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new novelists, a writer who evokes the wonder, terror, and heartache of her native Haiti--and the enduring strength of Haiti's women--with a vibrant imagery and narrative grace that bear witness to her people's suffering and courage.  

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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Original Title:	Breath, Eyes, Memory
ISBN:	037570504X (ISBN13: 9780375705045)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Haiti New York State(United States)

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I have heard it compared to virginity cult, our mothers' obsession with keeping us pure and chaste....Edwidge Danticat is a writer and she shows us and show off in writing this novel Breath, Eyes, Memory . A moving story that deeply explores mother-daughter relationships. Danticat explores how generation of hurt and emotional abuse affects relationships and future generations. The story is set in Haiti and explores three generations of women, Grandma Ifé, her daughters -Tante Atie, Martine and

This is a beautifully painful story. But does Danticat ever write happy stories? (Because 'Krik? Krak!' had some sad elements in most of the short stories lol). I don't even know how to review this... Breath, Eyes, Memory is a sad book that is written in such a calm manner - Danticat style! Its deep with so many issues that span across 3 generations of women. Grandma Ifé (Manman) and her daughters -Tante Atie, Martine (who moved to NY) and her granddaughter Sophie (the main character of this

Thanks to Isabelle for making me bump this book up my TBR list. I enjoyed most of this novel. It's a relatively short book that is by no means an easy read. BEM centers the story of Sophie, a young Haitian girl, who was raised by her aunt for most of her life, then summoned by her mother (whom she's never met) to join her in the US. As much as I enjoyed Danticat's delicate writing, there were parts of the novel that felt stagnant (when Sophie returns to Haiti with her daughter) or gaps in time

(3.5) Like her protagonist, Sophie Caco, Danticat was raised by her aunt in Haiti and reunited with her parents in the USA at age 12. As Sophie grows up and falls in love with an older musician, she and her mother are both haunted by sexual trauma that nothing not motherhood, not a long-awaited return to Haiti seems to heal. I loved the descriptions of Haiti (The sun, which was once god to my ancestors, slapped my face as though I had done something wrong. The fragrance of crushed mint leaves

The tale is not a tale unless I tell. Let the words bring wings to our feet. - Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory.My first read for Black History Month, Breath, Eyes, Memory is Edwidge Danticats first novel and I loved it. This writer introduced me to Haitian literature over a decade ago and I feel strong feelings of kinship with her.This was a beautiful and moving story about a young Haitian girl named Sophia, whose mother leaves her with an aunt in Haiti as a baby and moves to New York to

*sigh* Okay, what did I think of the book, what did I think? Well, by my grade I'm sure you can tell I wasn't too fond of the book and didn't like it all that much. I wish I could leave it at that, but I'm a person who's solidly against criticisms without any sort of reason to back it up with. So... let's explain why I didn't really like it...First of all, the story itself really didn't interest me at all. Sure there were moments that I couldn't put it down, but most of the time I was bored by