Shallow Waters (Platinum Spotlight)

About this book

The Yoruba deity of the sea Yemaya is brought to vivid life as she discovers the power of Black resilience love and feminine strength in antebellum America. Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya an Orisha -- a deity in the religion of Africas Yoruba people -- cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she holds dear.