Breath, Eyes, Memory despite President Johnson’s interference

despite President Johnson’s interference

Malcolm X—once called the most dangerous man in America—challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it

Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published in 1961

and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale

Love and hope dance across each page--granting us a way to talk about resilience as a family

Breath, Eyes, Memory despite President Johnson’s interferenceAt the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti to the women who first reared her. What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence. In her stunning literary