As each chapter offers up a new descendant, alternating between Effia’s and Esi’s bloodline right up to the present day, a chasm of experience and the differing legacies of chance are brought starkly to light. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow.
One sold into slavery one a slave trader's wife. There, it disappeared, becoming one with the night.Įffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. It lived off the air it slept in caves and hid in trees it burned, up and through, unconcerned with what wreckage it left behind, until it reached an Asante village. It moved quickly, tearing a path for days. The night Effia Otcha was born into the musky heat of Fanteland, a fire raged through her father’s compound.
Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month for October 2017
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