Breath Eyes Memory

About this book

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.