Breath, Eyes, Memory in firsthand accounts by women

in firsthand accounts by women who helped make it

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Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961

Breath, Eyes, Memory in firsthand accounts by womenAt 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