The Farming of Bones | Themes
Exile
As Scott Adlerberg observed in the Richmond Review, ‘‘Exile increases the poignancy of memory,’’ and many of the characters in the book are exiled, cut off from their families or homes by death or distance. Amabelle remembers her parents constantly, replaying their death by drowning in the swollen river, and talks about them with her lover Sebastien, who likewise tells her about his lost childhood in Haiti. The poor, displaced Haitians in the book all share this sense of a lost home, and it serves as a bond to unite their community—as...
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