- Fiction, Americans, Women travelers, Haitian Americans
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Edwidge Danticat
- First published
- May 18, 1998
- Pages
- 234
- Publisher
- Paw Prints 2010-06-15, PAX Forlag A/S, Soho Press, Incorporated
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Spanish, nob, hat, German
- ISBN
- 9781569471425
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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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