![]() On the day of Sophie’s departure from Haiti, Tante Atie rides with her to the airport, where a violent protest is taking place. ![]() Sophie makes a Mother’s Day card with a little dried daffodil attached to the edge for Tante Atie-but even though she repeatedly tries to give it to her aunt, Tante Atie insists the card should be for Sophie’s real mother. While other people tell Sophie that a daughter belongs with her mother, Sophie feels more like Tante Atie’s child-and even has nightmares in which her mother, whose face she only knows from pictures around the house, tries to kidnap her or physically restrain her. ![]() Sophie is resentful of the fact that she has to leave Haiti-even as escalating violence threatens its urban and rural areas alike, and even as Tante Atie seems to struggle more and more each day with her unrequited love for Sophie’s schoolteacher, Monsieur Augustin. In Part One of the novel, Sophie Caco, who has spent the first 12 years of her life growing up in the Haitian village of Croix-des-Rosets under the care of her mother’s sister, Tante Atie, is suddenly summoned to New York to join her mother, Martine, in Brooklyn. ![]()
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