Asha returns to Trinidad after years abroad, expecting to settle her grandmother's estate quietly. Instead, she discovers letters that reveal her family's hidden connections to the island's plantation past. Her grandmother Kamla had kept silent about their ancestors' roles as both colonized and complicit in the sugar trade. As Asha reads deeper into the correspondence, she uncovers stories of resistance and survival that span generations. The revelations force her to question everything she believed about her identity and heritage. She must decide whether to expose these family truths or protect the carefully constructed narratives that have shaped her understanding of home. The weight of inherited trauma collides with her need to forge an authentic relationship with her Caribbean roots.
Genres: literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: family-secrets, uncovering-the-past
Setting: Trinidad
Period: 20th-century
Paperback · Cane Arrow Press
Content warnings: colonialism