Breath, Eyes, Memory was written by Edwidge Danticat and first published in 1994. As a book, it gives a voice to the voiceless women of...

When Sophie returns home, Joseph alerts her to a message left by Marc on the phone: "Sophie, je t'en prie, call me. It's about your mother."

Presumably the following day, Sophie has a session with Rena. The specific aspect of scenery highlighted at the beginning of the chapter...

When Sophie and Joseph go to visit Martine that weekend, Sophie notices that Martine appears calmer and more well rested. Returning to New..

Sophie visits her therapist, Rena, where they meet for their session in the usual location of the woods by the Seekonk River. Rena...

The next chapter begins with Sophie’s sexual phobia group- a group of herself and two other women who shared similar painful memories and...

Sophie returns home, and Joseph of course rushes out to greet his wife and child. He seems conflicted by happiness to see them and anger...

Now on their way to the airport, Martine keeps ‘her eyes on the barren hills… outside the window.’ This mirrors a scene from earlier in...

Ife and Martine return from the notary’s the following morning, having officially coined a deed that divides the ownership of Ife’s land...

Martine arrives three days after Sophie’s confrontation with Ife. Note that she arrives holding a red umbrella that is obscuring her face...

Ife leaves the next morning to visit the cemetery to pay her final respects to Dessalines. Sophie speaks with Atie, and mentions her...

This poem, cryptic at first in what it hopes to express, is significant in that it tells the same story as the man who kills his young...

Despite her remark about being empty the night before, Atie appears happy the following morning. Today, Atie will accompany Louise to...

Upon returning to the house, Sophie finds Atie reclined in a chair. After retrieving Brigitte, Atie gets up and looks in her notebook...

Sophie awakes the next morning to watch the sunrise. This attests to the natural beauty of Haiti, and also corresponds to the idea of...

The three women sit together and eat supper. Note the mention of the distant light on the hill- it will be referred to later on. When...

Tante Atie and Sophie set foot towards Granmé Ifé’s house. As they pass the people on the road, Sophie notes that the people call Atie...

The book makes another large time skip to Sophie, around two years later, now having returned to Haiti. As the driver of the vehicle she...

Sophie doesn’t tell Joseph about the violation she experienced at the hands of her mother. She is likely both embarrassed because of this...

On the first night Joseph returns from his gig with the band, she goes out with him to hear him play. Martine was working, so Sophie...