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Breath, eyes, memory

Edwidge Danticat (Author)
The culture shock of Sophie Coco, a 12-year-old Haitian girl from the provinces, summoned to New York by her mother whom she hardly knows and who is toiling in a nursing home to provide for the family back home. There Sophie 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 woman who first reared her

Print Book, English, 1994
[First edition]
Soho, New York, 1994