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Praise for Breath, Eyes, MemoryOprah Book Club Selection"Vibrant, magic . . . Danticat's elegant, intricate tale wraps readers into the haunting life of a young Haitian girl."—The Boston Globe"Danticat's calm clarity of vision takes on the resonance of folk art . . . Extraordinarily successful."—The New York Times Book Review"A novel that rewards the reader again and again with small but exquisite and unforgettable epiphanies."—Washington Post Book World“Written in prose as clear as a bell, magical as a butterfly, and resonant as drum talk . . . An impressive debut.”—Julia Alvarez, author of In the Time of the Butterflies“Reading Edwidge Danticat’s first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, for the first time in 2015 is a remarkable experience . . . It is clear in retrospect that this is a novel whose literary resonance has been profound, one that opened many doors for others—without it, would we have The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao?”—Barnes and Noble Review"Danticat has created a stirring tale of life in two worlds: the spirit-rich land of her ancestry, whose painful themes work their way through lives across generational lines, and her adopted country, the United States, where a young immigrant girl must negotiate cold, often hostile terrain, even as she spars with painful demons of her past."—Emerge "A distinctive new voice with a sensitive insight into Haitian culture distinguishes this graceful debut novel . . . In simple, lyrical prose enriched by an elegiac tone and piquant observations, [Danticat] makes Sophie's confusion and guilt, her difficult assimilation into American culture and her eventual emotional liberation palpably clear."—Publishers Weekly

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About the Author

Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Dew Breaker, winner of the inaugural Story Prize; The Farming of Bones, which won an American Book Award for fiction in 1999; and Claire of the Sea Light. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and elsewhere.

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Product details

Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Soho Press; Anniversary edition (February 24, 2015)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1616955023

ISBN-13: 978-1616955021

Product Dimensions:

5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.2 out of 5 stars

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Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#40,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

My local library sponsors a "Black Voices" book group which offers the rare opportunity to read novels exploring black culture in the United States and throughout the world. The group's most recent book was "Breath, Eyes, Memory", (1994) the first novel of the Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) who has subsequent to this book established a substantial reputation. This is the first novel I have read about Haiti and my first book by Danticat. Oprah Winfrey featured "Breath, Eyes, Memory" on her show.Danticat's book helped teach me about Haiti and about the life of Haitian immigrants to the United States. The book shows the growth in self-understanding and in freedom of a young Haitian woman, Sophie Caco, who narrates the story. In the course of the book, the scene shifts several times between two Haitian villages, Croix-des-Rosets and Dame Marie, about five hours apart driving on poor roads, and New York City.At the outset of the novel, Sophie is a young girl of twelve who lives with her unmarried Aunt Atie in Croix-des-Rosets and is excelling in school. Sophie's mother, who had moved to New York years earlier under mysterious circumstances, suddenly sends her daughter a plane ticket to join her. Sophie lives under the protective wing of her mother, who works menial jobs, through high school before meeting an older man, a musician named Joseph, and running off from her mother to marry him. Gradually, Sophie learns about her mother's past, especially the brutal rape which resulted in Sophie's conception. Concerned for her innocence, Sophie's mother subjects her to a humiliating series of examinations of her private parts designed to protect her purity. After Sophie's marriage, which alienates her from her mother, and the birth of her own daughter, Bridgette, Sophie travels back to Haiti to try to come to terms with herself and to work through her lack of interest in sexual relations with her husband.Sophie generally speaks in a simple, flowing style. The book is at its best in the Haitian scenes as the author describes the local people, the troubled political situation and Sophie's family, particularly her aunt and her grandmother. The book describes the local folk religion and the heaven, called Guinea, which awaits people after death. The book is full of stories of various lengths which are fascinating in themselves and which illuminate Sophie's search to come to terms with herself. One of the key stories involves the origin of the family surname, Caco, which derives from the caco bird. As Aunt Attie explains to Sophie:"Our family name, Caco, it is the name of a scarlet bird. A bird so crimson, it makes the reddest hibiscus or the brightest flame trees seem white. The Caco bird, when it dies, there is always a rush of blood that rises to its neck and the wings, they look so bright, you would think them on fire."Although the book offers many insights into Sophie and into Haiti, I found it deeply flawed. The story gradually shifts away from Sophie and becomes gendered and polemical. Sophie becomes less a person than a symbol of the sexual and economic woes that the author finds pervade the lot of women, in Haiti and everywhere. The litany includes, besides the rape and emotional fridgidity that are central to the story, breast cancer, incest, abortions, and much else. The reader tends to lose track of Sophie and of a shared humanity amidst the welter of women's issues. The author herself expands and loses the focus of the book. In a concluding passage, the author speaks in her own voice to address the character she has created:"I write this to you now, Sophie, because your secrets, like you, like me, have traveled far from this place. your experiences in the night, your grandmother's obsessions, your mother's 'tests' have taken on a larger meaning, and your body is now being asked to represent a larger space than your flesh. You are being asked, I have been told, to represent every girl child, every woman from this land that you and I love so much. Tired of protesting, I feel I must explain."Danticat's explanations notwithstanding, Sophie's story is weakened immeasurably when it forgets about a woman and becomes a symbol for everywoman. When the author allows Sophie to speak as an individual and to come to peace with her mother and with herself, she largely succeeds. As a symbol, the story fails. Danticat's first novel was a book of promise, marred substantially by its movement from a person and a place to a gendered symbol.Robin Friedman

This is a book that I first had to read as a summer reading book when I was in high school, I didn't know what to expect but once I started reading the book I was hooked and couldn't put the book down. This book will make you sympathize with the main character's pain, struggles, and etc. When I first got the book it was the paperback version but I loved this book so much that when I saw the hardcopy available I had to buy it cause this is one of those books you cant forget.

This was a book that my book club read. Some people liked it and some people did not. It was helpful in understanding some of the history of Haiti but not necessarily the characters in the book. At first I found it really interesting and well written especially for a first novel but by the end, the characters were not well explained in my mind and it was really depressing. Other people did not feel as strongly as I did. We did have good discussions about it. I wouldn't say don't read it but if I had the choice to make again, I personally would probably have chosen to read something else. Having said that, I did stay up really late to finish it. It held your attention throughout but I found I wanted to better understand the characters and so I found the ending unsatisfying.

Another focus on international culture and ethnicity - perfect for my International Psychology course - she's a great writer - easy to connect with - and reminds me very much of Paule Marshall and her stories of growing up in NYC after immigrating from Barbados...rich material, very informative - and necessary today while there is so much animosity towards those who have immigrated - and counters the mis-information about their behavior once arriving - Danticat demonstrates the determination to survive, to work hard - to overcome racism and assimilate into society as an active contributor, and to overcome adversity even within a family.

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