Publisher's Synopsis
A young father takes a break from tending the family garden with his son to tell the boy a story. In relating a tale brushed with a stroke of family lore, the father takes the two of them back centuries-to the West Coast of Africa-to a captured boy's Transatlantic journey on a slave ship with an okra pod in the fold of his body cloth-to the Caribbean and the West-to places where only love, strength and courage may voyage...
