ISBN: 9798184867700 (1 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Novel in Three Generations'When you pass through the waters, I will be with you.' - Isaiah 43:2A handful of okra seeds, hidden in a girl's hair on the road to a slave ship. A broom jumped in a narrow yard between cabins. A name passed down through a wartime kitchen, then a free man's table. Some things, once protected fiercely enough, refuse to stay lost - they simply wait for the next pair of hands willing to carry them forward.Amma is eleven years old when she's torn from her village and carried across an ocean, with nothing left of home but a few seeds her mother pressed into her hair. Cudjoe, her great-grandson, is thirty-eight when he finally reaches for the one thing a plantation owner's ledger can never fully claim: freedom, however far north it demands he walk to find it. And Theodosia is the granddaughter neither of them lived to meet - a free Black businesswoman in Philadelphia, fighting to claim the catering empire she built with her own two hands after her father's will hands it to someone else.Spanning a West African village, a Barbados cane field, a Revolutionary War winter camp, and the parlors of free Black Philadelphia, Through Deep Waters follows one family's seeds, faith, and fierce determination across five generations and two centuries - proving that what's carried with enough love is never truly lost, only waiting to be planted again.For readers of Homegoing and The Kitchen House, a sweeping generational saga of survival, inheritance, and the quiet, stubborn grace of a family that always finds a way to keep what matters heavy and close.…