What is the author's tone in The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat?

Danticat avoids an emotional tone, preferring to capture the numbness inherent to the survivors of catastrophes. She presents the scenes and allows the reader to view them and fill in the emotional impact of the slaughter, torture, and dislocation of the refugees. This participation on the reader's part makes the scenes hard to dismiss, and hard to forget.