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Claire Faustin has never had a happy birthday.
Her mother died the day she was born. Her father, Nozias, is an illiterate fisherman who lives in a shack on the beach in a seaside village in Haiti. Every year on her birthday, he tries to give the little girl to the fabric vendor, a wealthier woman who lost her own daughter, in hopes that Claire will have a better life.
“The good news, Claire thought, was that her father did not try to give her away every day. Most days he acted as though he would always keep her.”