Breath, Eyes, Memory | Sophie Caco

Sophie Caco, the narrator of the novel, is twelve-years-old when the novel begins, being raised by her aunt, Tante Atie, in a small Haitian town; her mother has emigrated to the United States. Born after her mother was raped, she doesn't know her father, and because her mother left Haiti when Sophie was two, she doesn't know her mother either. As a child, she imagines her mother as being like the Haitian goddess Erzulie, "the lavish Virgin Mother ... Even though she was far away, she was always with me. I could always count on her, like one counts on the sun coming out at...

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