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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, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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Fiction, Americans, Women travelers, Haitian Americans, Women, Travel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Haitianerin, Belletristische Darstellung, Domestic fiction, Large type books, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Haiti, fiction, Mother-daughter relationship, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life, Literary, Family Life, Mädchen, Wohnungswechsel, Mutter, TochterPlaces
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Atem, Augen, Erinnerungen: Roman
1999, Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verl.
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Breath, eyes, memory
1998, Vintage Books
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Breath, eyes, memory
1998, Vintage Books
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Breath, eyes, memory
1995, Vintage Books
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"A flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my aunt Atie for Mother's Day."
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