The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Date and Time: November 2, 2022, 6:30 PM CT
Location:
Basehor Community Library, 1400 158th St, Basehor
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From the TALK series, Wit and Grit: Women Characters in Contemporary Fiction
Book discussion led by Thomas Prasch.
The same day eight-year-old Amabelle Désir watches her parents drown in the swollen Massacre River that separates Haiti from the Dominican Republic, she is taken into the home of a prominent Dominican couple to become their servant and playmate for their daughter. The greater part of the novel follows Amabelle as she deals with the dreams and nightmares that result from her early trauma, her love for Sebastian, another Haitian immigrant, and the terror of the 1937 slaughter of Haitian immigrants when Dominicans turn on these laborers. How Amabelle survives her losses, her servitude, and the senseless terror brought down upon her and her fellow immigrants is a lesson in courage.
Sponsored by: Basehor Community Library
For more information about this event, please contact:
Laura Carroll
(913) 724-2828
http://www.basehorlibrary.org