In the last pages that I read, Sophie flew back to New York from Haiti with her daughter. When she got back she wanted to know what was going on with her mother. Plus she wanted to resolve her issues with her. When she went to visit her, Sophie noticed that her mother was carrying a child of her own. But there was only one problem. The baby reminded the mother of all the pains that she went through when she was carrying Sophie. It wasn't long that Sophie realized that her mother was suffering from all the pain that the baby brought her. The mother wanted an abortion, and she wanted fast. As Sophie was explaining to her friend what was happening she told the friend that her mother told her that the baby was talking to her. The friend tried to convinced Sophie to have the mother see a psychiatrist to help her mother with her problems but Sophie knew that her mother wasn't going to go. As her and her friend were talking Sophie knew that at the moment her mother was going to have an abortion. When Sophie went home she got a phone call from Marc telling her that her mother had killed herself and the baby. Sophie wanted to see her mother but she was too late, the already send the body to Haiti without her knowledge. Her. Mother had stabbed herself seventeen times in her stomach. Sophie didn't know how she was going to tell her grand mother and her aunt, little did she know they already knew. Her mother was buried in the backyard of her grand mother's house.
"I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like the hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to. (Danticat 234)
The reason why I chose this quote is because you can see where she got the title of the book. Not only that you can feel the emotions that she feels when she's saying those words.
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