![]() The prose is beautifully haunting and the story is infused with a dream-like quality that supports her claim that the work is fiction. ![]() In the Acknowledgements of the edition I just read, Danticat emphasizes that The Farming of Bones is a work of fiction based on historical events. An uprising of the Dominican army against the Haitians lead to tragic events and her retreat to the land of her birth. She is raised as the companion to the daughter of a wealthy landowner, and at the time we meet her, she is working in the household and in love with a Haitian cane cutter. For me, the story underscores the important role literature plays in forcing us to think of the human side of historical events, in this case, as it relates to the very hot topic of immigration.Īmabelle is a Haitian young woman who is brought to the Spanish side of the Dominican Republic after both her parents drown. A series of circumstances led me to reread Amabelle’s story as narrated in The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat. ![]()
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