Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Author:Edwidge Danticat
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Haitian Americans - New York (State) - New York, Women - New York (State) - New York, New York (State), Women travelers, New York (N.Y.), General, Literary, Haitian Americans - Travel - Haiti, Americans, Haitian Americans, Haiti, Fiction, Domestic fiction, Women
ISBN: 9780375705045
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1998-03-15T18:46:39+00:00

Chapter 18

Tante Atie was stretched out in an old rocker. Brigitte lay on her lap. My grandmother took her beans to the yard to pick out the pebbles. She fanned a small fire with her hat, washed the beans, then put them to boil in a pot.

Brigitte yawned in her sleep as I picked her up. Tante Atie got up, grabbed her notebook from the floor, and peered at the pages. She held the notebook so close to her face, I thought there was a mirror inside.

"I did not realize you would remember the words of my card this long," I said.

"When you have something precious, you do not forget it."

She pressed her notebook against her chest as she started for the road.

"Are you going to the maché?" my grandmother called out.

"You need something?" asked Tante Atie.

"The Macoutes were doing damage," my grandmother said.

"Fighting?" asked Tante Atie.

"You just wait awhile," said my grandmother. "Don't go there now."

"Fighting who?" Tante Atie looked worried.

"I did not ask," said my grandmother.

"They hurt anybody?"

"The coal man, Dessalines."

"Dessalines? Why?"

"When people hate you they beat your animals. I don't know'

"Old woman, I am going to get a remedy for a lump in my calf and it cannot wait." Tante walked down the road, racing towards the marketplace.

"You have a lump on your calf?" asked my grandmother.

By then, Tante Atie was already gone.

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