Cutting cane was the only thing for a young one to do when I was your age. Cooking and cleaning, looking after others, that's my school now. "At one time, I would have given anything to be in school. I have work."Ī blush of embarrassment rose to her brown cheeks. Besides, I have to rest my back when you have your class.
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"I do not want a pack of children teaching me how to read," she said. I never have anyone to read with, so Monsieur Augustin always pairs me off with an old lady who wants to learn her letters, but does not have children at the school." "I like everything but those reading classes they let parents come to in the afternoon. She bent down and kissed my forehead, then pulled me down onto her lap. "How was school?" she asked, with a big smile.
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When I stood in front of her, she opened her arms just wide enough for my body to fit into them. When Tante Atie saw me, she raised the piece of white cloth she was embroidering and waved it at me. I put the card back in my pocket before I got to the yard. They would be burned that night at the konbit potluck dinner. The leaves had been left in the sun to dry. When I turned the corner near the house, I saw her sitting in an old rocker in the yard, staring at a group of children crushing dried yellow leaves into the ground. I pressed my palm over the flower and squashed it against the plain beige cardboard. And Laura Hruska, for believing I could.Ī flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my aunt Atie for Mother's Day. To Christopher Dunn for muito amor and support. The whole gang at Barnard! Suzanne Guard-my guardian angel. Much thanks to the old gang, Chantal, Maryse, Stephanie, Michele and Sandra. My uncle Joseph and Aunt Denise in Haiti. My brothers Kelly, Karl, and Eliab Andre. Much thanks to my father and mother, Andre and Rose Danticat. To the brave women of Haiti, grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, daughters, and friends, on this shore and other shores. The text of this novel includes words and phrases in Haitian Creole. Though she barely knows her mother they both carry secrets from their homeland that will haunt them forever. Their parting, years later, when her mother sends for her, is as wrenching as the reunion in New York. When her mother leaves Haiti to find work in the US, Sophie is raised by her aunt. Genre: detective Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat