The story focuses on a young black woman being sent on a passenger liner from Africa to a segregated U.S. as a courier carrying an illegal animal. She is effectively own by the African woman sending her, and her treatment on the ship is reminiscent of the Middle Passage. Given the wider context, there might be other, related stories to come.
}, year = {2022}, journal = {Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction}, pages = {275-294}, month = {01/2022}, publisher = {Tordotcom/Tom Doherty Associates}, address = {New York}, isbn = {9781250833006 978-1636141053}, note = {Rpt. in the author\’s The Wishing Pool and Other Stories (Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books, 2023), 251-270.
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