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From the best-selling writer of Breath, Eyes, Memory, a serious and separate book of two lovers battling against governmental violenceThe Farming of Bones starts in 1937 in a town on the side of the water that divides the nation from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a maidservant for the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her fan Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, choose they'll marry and go back to Haiti at the conclusion of the stick period. Nevertheless, hostilities toward Haitian workers locate a spokesman within the super-nationalist Generalissimo Trujillo who requires an ethnic cleansing of his Spanish-speaking nation. As rumors of Haitian persecution as nervousness turns to horror, become reality, Sebastien and Amabelle 's desires are leveled for the simplest human need: to withstand.