Breath, Eyes, Memory | Martine Caco

Sophie's mother, who is recovering from breast cancer, works as an aide at a nursing home during the day and as a private health care aide at night. She came to the United States when Sophie was two, in an attempt to put Haiti behind her. She is constantly tormented by nightmares of a traumatic event that occurred when she was sixteen: a strange man, wearing a mask, took her into a cane field and brutally raped her. This resulted in Sophie's birth.

Martine was also sexually traumatized by her mother, Grandma Ife, who tested her for virginity until after the rape. Ife meant well...

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