1960s Angola. A Goan immigrant family finds itself caught between their
complicity in Portuguese rule and their own outsider status in the
period leading up to independence. Looking back on her childhood, the
narrator of Suneeta Peres da Costa's novel captures with intense
lyricism the difficult relationship between her and her mother, and the
ways in which their intimate world is shaken by domestic violence, the
legacies of slavery, and the end of empire. Her story unfolds into a
growing awareness of the lies of colonialism and the political ruptures
that ultimately lead to their exile.