River Sing Me Home (Penguin Random House), a novel by the granddaughter of Windrush immigrants Eleanor Shearer, charts a cross-Caribbean historical journey of enslavement, freedom, and redemption. From Barbados to British Guiana to Trinidad, runaway ex-enslaved Rachel searches for her children, willing to risk everything to discover their fates. Set in slavery’s immediate aftermath, River Sing Me Home explores the continued exploitation of Black bodies under the apprenticeship regime that succeeded the Emancipation Act of 1834.