What are the motifs in The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat?

The themes of exile and of remembrance are related: the exiles' pain motif is alternately increased or soothed by their remembrance of the past. In addition, however, the book is permeated with a sense of remembrance of the actual people who suffered through these events, and the unnamed, unrecorded tens of thousands who were killed. As a man says near the end of the book, "Famous men never die. . .It is only those nameless and faceless who vanish like smoke in the early moning air."