The Farming of Bones

One Haitian orphan is caught up in the 1937 Parsely Massacre in this "passionate and heartrending" (Entertainment Weekly) modern classic, the American Book Award winner and New York Times Notable Book by Edwidge Danticat, author of the Oprah Book Club selection Breath, Eyes, Memory.

It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are...