Breath, Eyes, Memory Sophi Caco lives with her aunt in a small village called Croix-des-Rosets in Haiti. She lives in a small two-room house and sleeps with her Aunt Atie. Sophis’ mother lives in New York City. Sophi does not remember her mother much, she left when she was a small child. One day Sophi came home from school and Atie was waiting on the steps of their house with a sad expression on her …showed first 75 words of 1185 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1185 total…When she called him back he told her that her mother had stabbed her self in the stomach fourteen times, and that she was dead. Sophi returned home to Haiti to attend her mothers’ funeral and to mend her broken heart. While she was there she learned that “I came from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like hair on your head.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**