Publication

2015 - Soho

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9781616955021
  • Open LibraryOL27101083M

Classifications

  • LCCPS3554.A5815 B74 2015
  • LCCPS3554.A5815B74 2015

Description

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.

First Sentence

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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