Breath, Eyes, Memory
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Breath, Eyes, Memory (ISBN 0-375-70504-X) is Edwidge Danticat's acclaimed 1994 novel, and was chosen as an Oprah Book Club Selection in May of 1998.
[edit] Plot summary
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The novel is about the coming of age and self-discovery of a Haitian woman named Sophie. Sophie grows up in Haiti with her aunt but must leave as an adolescent for New York to be with her mother. She and her mother become estranged when Sophie becomes involved with an older American man. Sophie later goes back to Haiti to quell some of her self confusion.
[edit] Major themes
The novel deals with questions of racial, linguistic and gender identity in interconnected ways.
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