At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her.
year: 1998, 1995, 1994
call number/section: 1000
subjects: haitian americans, new york (n.y.), fiction, travel, haiti, women, mothers and daughters, tourism, new york, mother-daughter relationship, domestic fiction, new york (state), americans, women travelers, large type books, haiti, fiction
Editions
Danticat, Edwidge
Vintage Books (1998)
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from the impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York to be reunited with her mother, where she gains a legacy of shame that can only be healed when she returns to Haiti, to the woman who first reared her.
Schools: 1
Danticat, Edwidge
Vintage Books (1995)
Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.
Schools: 1
Danticat, Edwidge
Soho (1994)
Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.
Schools: 3
Danticat, Edwidge
Sophie Caco, a child who was born of rape, leaves Haiti at the age of twelve to join her mother in New York City, where they both battle with the results of sexual abuse.
Schools: 7
Danticat, Edwidge
Schools: 1