by Robert de la Chevotiere
In the aftermath of Haiti’s independence, the vengeful unborn spirit of a child named Etta draws her father from the Bight of Biafra onto a slave ship bound for the harshly colonized Caribbean island of Dominica in this lush historical novel infused with magical realism and rooted in West African mythology for readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer and River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer.1794, Benin, Africa. Bako is one of 162 men stolen from their homeland. After a harrowing voyage acr
ISBN: 9781645662037
288 pages
Published: 2026-08-25
Publisher: Erewhon Books