Breath, Eyes, Memory

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 1998. Edwidge Danticat’s first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory was published when Danticat was only twenty-five years old. As she has recounted in interviews, the book began as an essay of her childhood in Haiti and her move as a young girl to New York City. The novel deals with questions of racial, linguistic an... more

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 1998. Edwidge Danticat’s first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory was published when Danticat was only twenty-five years old. As she has recounted in interviews, the book began as an essay of her childhood in Haiti and her move as a young girl to New York City. The novel deals with questions of racial, linguistic and gender identity in interconnected ways. less