When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant it amplifies her struggle to understand her place in the world as a woman who is half-Black and half-white. Her mother, Evelyn, fled to Canada with her first-born child, Antony, during the politically charged Jamaican Exodus of the 1980s. Years later, in the aftermath of Antony's murder by the police, the traumas carried grow into a web of secrets that threatens the very family they all hold so dear. Weaving the women's stories across multiple timelines, this novel reveals the ways that simple choices can have deeper repercussions.
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