Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat ebook
Page: 256
Format: pdf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780375705045

Comments: Breath, Eyes, Memory is a moving story about a daughter and mother tied together by a terrible secret. The surprise was that I landed on 'Breath, Eyes, Memory'. This country is one of the poorest in the world and always seems to be involved in some kind of violent discourse. At 25, she published her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, “which achieves an emotional complexity that lifts it out of the realm of the potboiler and into that of poetry,” according to The New York Times. Danticat did accept an Oprah's Book Club feature for her novel "Breath, Eyes, Memory." But her audience definitely includes artists and patrons living relatively stable lives. The young girl in Breath, Eyes, Memory has a similar experience, living many years with her aunt in Haiti until her mother finally sends for her from New York. Instead, she says: "What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the ledge. Because sometimes I read a book, and I want to tell somebody about it. By Edwidge Danticat Selected in May 1998. This novel is set in the always turbulent country of Haiti located in the Carribean.