The Farming of Bones 1999

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In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haiti border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians. Reprint.

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• Brother, I'm Dying (2007)
• Claire of the Sea Light (2013)
• Create Dangerously (2010)
• The Farming of Bones (1999)
• The Dew Breaker (2004)
• The Best American Essays 2011 (2011)
• Breath, Eyes, Memory (1998)