Breath, Eyes, Memory (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwidge Danticat
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1970’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: Haiti and New York City
- Principal Characters: Sophie Caco, Martine Caco, Tante Atie, Grandma Ife
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Suffering, Mothers, Parents and children, Women, Identity, Haiti or Haitians
- Locales: New York, NY, Haiti
The Novel
Breath, Eyes, Memory tells the story of Sophie Caco from her younger years in Haiti to her mother’s death. Over the course of the novel, Sophie must come to terms with her family, her family’s past, her childhood, and her own identity.
The third-person narrator begins with Sophie in Haiti, living with her Tante Atie, who had moved from her mother’s home to town to assure Sophie’s education. The early part of the novel (part 1) shows the details of Sophie’s world: the close neighborhood, the political turmoil, the struggles of Tante Atie as a...
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