A vibrant dance of ideas, music and sugar-rice, this novel unfurls like spoken word poetry, moving fluidly from Ghana, to Florida, to the fictional Caribbean island of Fumaz. We follow two interwoven narratives, of Yunior and Emelina, discovering what home can mean, their lives intersecting, separating and finally blossoming into love. A celebration of intense longing and connection to land and myth, food and music, this is a life-affirming read.
These are the stories that fire Emelina Santos's love of the homeland she has never visited. Between her mother's tobacco and her father's rice, she has grown up in the enchantment of music blaring from speakers every weekend, the unimprisonable aroma of fresh ground coffee drowned in milk and sugar, the lingering whispers from her father's celebratory cigars, her mother's fast, blunt Spanish, with its fading consonants.
