Breath, Eyes, Memory (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwidge Danticat
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Suffering, Mothers, Parents and children, Women, Identity, Haiti or Haitians
- Locales: New York, NY, Haiti
Edwidge Danticat is a name anyone who appreciates serious, well-wrought fiction would do well to continue watching for. Her first novel, BREATH, EYES, MEMORY, is a marvelous literary achievement, calling to mind the debut of Carson McCullers, whose classic THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER was published when she was just twenty-three.
While BREATH, EYES, MEMORY is very much a Bildungsroman—a novel about growing up—Danticat writes with the confidence of someone who has put much thought and work into developing her craft. She controls the pace of her narrative and scenes quite...
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