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The Farming of Bones begins in 1937 in a village on the Dominican side of the river that separates the country from Haiti. Amabelle Desir, Haitian-born and a faithful maidservant to the Dominican family that took her in when she was orphaned, and her lover Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, decide they will marry and return to Haiti at the end of the cane season. However, hostilities toward Haitian laborers find a vitriolic spokesman in the ultra nationalist Generalissimo Trujillo who calls for an ethnic cleansing of his Spanish speaking country. As rumors of Haitian persecution become fact, as anxiety turns to terror, Amabelle and Sebastien's dreams are leveled to the most basic human desire: to endure. Based on a little known historical event, this extraordinarily moving novel memorializes the forgotten victims of nationalist madness and the deeply felt passion and grief of its survivors.

Massacres --- Haitians --- Women household employees --- Plantation life --- Dominican-Haitian Conflict, 1937 --- Refugees --- Genocide --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Ethnology --- Displaced persons --- Persons --- Aliens --- Deportees --- Exiles --- Haitian-Dominican Conflict, 1937 --- Country life --- Housemaids --- Maids, House --- Women domestics --- Women servants --- Household employees --- Atrocities --- History --- Persecution --- Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, --- Chapita, --- Molina, Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, --- Trujillo, Rafael Leónidas, --- Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, --- Dominican-Haitian Conflict (1937) --- Dominican Republic --- Haiti --- República Dominicana --- République dominicaine --- Quisqueya --- San Domingo --- ドミニカ共和国 --- Dominika Kyōwakoku --- Dominikaaninen tasavalta --- Dominikanska republiken --- Dominikanische Republik --- רפובליקה הדומיניקנית --- Republiḳah ha-Dominiḳanit --- Santo Domingo (Spanish colony) --- American literature