When Henry O''Toole escapes the Irish famine and sails to America, he doesn''t expect the anti-Irish prejudices that await him. Determined never to starve again, he changes his name to Henry Taylor to secure a job and safeguard his future. Traveling south to Virginia, he meets Sarah, a slave woman torn from her family and sold to another plantation. There she must navigate the power system of the white masters, as well as the hierarchy of her fellow slaves.
This extraordinary debut novel heralds the arrival of an exciting new voice in Black women's writing. It is an interracial love story set in pre-Civil War America, and inspired by the true story of author Tammye's great-great grandparents. Along with love and race, it touches on themes of identity, sacrifice, belonging and survival.
