This book is a work of poetry, drama, memory, and healing. It follows Deja as she journeys toward Ghana, ancestry, naming, and truth. Along the way, she encounters beauty, music, cloth, water, prayer, and sacred remembrance.
The story also includes painful history connected to enslavement, forced walking, confinement, the Middle Passage, Elmina Castle, the women's dungeon, grief, death, sexual violence, miscarriage, and ancestral trauma. These moments are included to honor truth and witness, not to frighten or shock.
Young readers may want to read this book with a trusted adult, teacher, elder, caregiver, or discussion group. 
Teachers, parents, librarians, and performance leaders should prepare readers before sharing the most difficult scenes. The goal is not to make young people carry trauma, but to help them honor history with dignity and hope.