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Kelithe’s tranquil day of washing laundry in the Rio Minho is shattered when she discovers her son Timothy’s drowned body, sparking rumors in her Jamaican village that she watched and allowed it to happen. Grief overwhelms her, and the community’s whispers of moral failure weight heavily upon her fragile life. Meanwhile, her mother Sonya, who had long sought to reunite the family across the Atlantic, faces her own struggles in America and the bittersweet reality that her reunion with Kelithe comes after years of separation and missed opportunities. The novel traces the painful yet complex bonds between a mother, her daughter, and the woman who carried them across oceans, revealing the interwoven grief and hope that define their shared history.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Donna Hemans
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