
The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
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Literary Fiction1999en
It is 1937, the Dominican side of the Haitian border. Amabelle, orphaned at the age of eight when her parents drowned, is a maid to the young wife of an army colonel. She has grown up in this household, a faithful servant. Sebastien is a field hand, an itinerant sugarcane cutter…
Coming-of-AgeMulti-generational