RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewOccasionally the matter-of-fact tone of the swift, simple prose in Breath, Eyes, Memory seems inappropriate for its subject matter -- which includes rape and sexual abuse as well as third world political strife -- but Ms. Danticat\'s calm clarity of vision takes on the resonance of folk art. In the end, her book achieves an emotional complexity that lifts it out of the realm of the potboiler and into that of poetry ... Ms. Danticat...is extraordinarily ambitious in the number of psychological and intellectual themes she introduces in Breath, Eyes, Memory. She is also extraordinarily successful.
