Deeper than the Ocean (Union Square & Co.) by Mirta Ojito exhumes generations of suppressed secrets, following a journalist’s quest to unearth the truth about her great-grandmother. Traversing the Canary Islands, Spain, Key West, and Cuba, the novel covers vast geographical terrain. Told in chapters that alternate between the two women, Deeper than the Ocean investigates the importance of powerful female narratives in keeping history alive. Cuban-born Ojito, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for her nonfiction, makes her novel debut with a combination of prodigious research and emotional investment in her characters’ inner lives.