The Farming of Bones (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwidge Danticat
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Twentieth century, Dreams, 1930’s, Nightmares, Orphans or orphanages, Massacres, Haiti or Haitians, Dominican Republican or Dominicans
- Locales: Haiti, Dominican Republic
The main character in The Farming of Bones, Amabelle, is a young Haitian woman living with her adoptive family in the Dominican Republic in the 1930's. Orphaned at the age of eight when her parents drowned, Amabelle is haunted by dreams and nightmares about her childhood. In the happy dreams, she recalls the tender memories of family life with loving parents, but in the nightmares, she relives the moment when her mother reached out to her as she was drowning. Amabelle is never sure whether her mother was motioning for her to enter the river to die with her parents or warning her...
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