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Breath, Eyes, Memory

Edwidge Danticat

Start date: July 15, 2025

Finish date: August 15, 2025

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Jul 18, 2011 Shakirah rated it really liked it

This book somehow has the uncanny capacity to transform you into the protagonist, Sophie. You can almost feel all the sensations she described. A very evocative story on the strength of women, of the ties that bind women, of family values..If you like The Colour Purple, I would guess that you will like this too.

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Jun 20, 2025 spoko rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, race

An extraordinarily well written novel. There is so much going on in this novel, sometimes just beneath the surface—the crushing oppression of societal poverty, the richness of cultural tradition, the peril of cultural expectations, sexual violence, mental illness, immigration & assimilation, etc., etc. But Danticat tells the story with a sensitivity and subtlety that keeps the narrative itself always alive & compelling.

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Feb 28, 2010 Laine rated it liked it

Rape and purity. Old and young. Mothers and daughters. Mothers and Aunts. Agonising personal events within a rich cultural developing world (Haiti) context. An impressive story and well worth mulling over.

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