A review by tamara_mousa
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

5.0

In Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat describes the life of Haitians in the second half of 1900, during the presence of the terrorist group Macoutes that was formed by Dictator Duvalier. It is the story of Sophie (who was the result of rape when her mom was a teenager), her childhood in Haiti and life in NY with her mom, who couldn’t escape her rape-trauma syndrome. The tale also highlighted the racism that Haitians were subjected to in the US, the role of the US in controlling Haiti's finances after invading it in 1915, since they imposed forced labor that caused Haitians to become slaves to the US, which resulted in the death of thousands in 1920s.
A summary is available on my blog: www.tamarayousefmousa.com/