LONG WAY HOME.
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Eshe Sissoko has built a life in Manhattan's skyscrapers, far from the red clay and salt air of Gullah Island. But when her mother dies, she is pulled back to the Carolina coast where the land remembers everything, even what she has tried to forget.
Back among the moss-draped oaks and tight-lipped elders, Eshe finds that her family's history is tangled deeper in the island's soil than she ever knew. Reconnecting with Thaddeus, the childhood friend who never left, she uncovers secrets meant to stay buried and a community on the edge of erasure.
What begins as a reluctant homecoming becomes something more: a reckoning. With her identity. With the land. With the ancestors who have never stopped calling her name.
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