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Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité (known as Tété) only knows a childhood of bondage, brutality, and fear, but she finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in the voodoo she discovers through her fellow slaves. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island, it’s with dreams of financial success in his mind, but running his father’s plantation, Saint-Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy . . .
Spanning four decades, Island Beneath the Sea unveils the moving story of the intertwined lives of Tété and Valmorain, and of one woman’s determination to find love amid loss, to offer humanity though her own has been battered, and to forge her own identity in the cruelest of circumstances.
“Timely and absorbing, Island Beneath the Sea is filled with adventure, vivid characters, and richly detailed descriptions of life in the Caribbean.” -- Library Journal