The Farming of Bones | Themes of Remembrance, Racism, and Hope
In the following essay, Kelly Winters discusses themes of remembrance, racism, and hope in The Farming of Bones.
In her afterword to The Farming of Bones, Danticat writes:
In The Farming of Bones, Amabelle is similarly obsessed with the loss of the past, and the unrecorded or forgotten stories of thousands of lives cut short or stunted. Even before the slaughter, she ritualistically tells herself the story of her parents’ drowning, keeping alive every word and gesture; but she realizes that the older she gets, the more her memories of them are fading. At the end of the book she knows, painful though it is, that her memories of her lost lover Sebastien...
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