The Farming of Bones Edwidge Danticat
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

In a poignant moment at the end of The Farming of Bones, Amabelle, the protagonist, returns to Massacre River where her parents had drowned. It's one of the original Buena Vista gateposts. Journey is one of the many thematic topics in The Farming of Bones. See this cement post on it's side? The jazzy, colourful figure of a swaying brown silhouette playing guitar… and the stories guys told me of their work in the florida cane fields as migrant labourers… and edwidge danticat deeply bluesing the farming of bones. What theme does Danticat offer about journey? It's like the bones of the farm are visible. Danticat does a magnificent job of capturing horror and hope in her book The Farming of Bones. The Farming of the Bones by Edwidge Danticat. I remember liking Breath, Eyes, Memory. Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; The Farming of Bones, an American Book Award winner; and The Dew Breaker, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and winner of the inaugural Story Prize. Once again, I have found myself inside the head of a young girl in Haiti . Hey, has anyone read the Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat? Who does she use as a vehicle to promote this theme and how? €�He seems to be really well organized.” She said Ben was especially helpful three years ago, when Clyde suffered an accident that shattered some of his bones. The title is gruesome, but refers to the cutting of sugar cane. We're all a part of something bigger, and we're a part of it together. The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Likely this mink farm owned a very large, commercial meat grinder which would grind up bones as well.