This is a story set in slavery-America and circles around a woman who has commited the worst crime of all: she killed her child.
This is also a ghost-story about a child that comes back from the past to haunt its mother.
This is a story about what it means to be a mother, what it means to decide to kill ones own child to put it somewhere safe.
This is a story about memory, how it keeps coming back, no matter how traumatic it may be.
This is a story about love, how hard it is to express when all feelings have been numbed by experiences that remain unspeakable.
This is a story that is full of metaphors and symbols, expressing things that mere words cannot express.
This story asks a question: How can someone forget/overcome/process/express the sufferings they have been trough? Does one ever cease to be a slave? Can one be a slave and at the same time be a human being, be a mother?
Read it.