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What We Carried Across the Sea
Paperback
Publisher: Keshav Kumar Phokeerdass
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
What We Carried Across the Sea
In 1882, Kamla, a widowed woman marked by debt and suspicion, presses her thumb into a recruiter's ledger and becomes 147. Alongside a haunted river-man, a scarred girl, and a disgraced scholar, she crosses the Kala Pani-the black water that severs caste, memory, and home-to become indentured labour in the sugar fields of Mauritius. Through storms, sickness, and the brutal grind of the cane, Kamla must learn what can truly be carried across an ocean: not possessions, but the fragile, defiant threads of song, memory, and a bond that could become a new kind of home.
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