Emotions are vivid in this beautiful novella told in fragments, set in a shantytown in Mauritius. 15-year-old Noemi‘s outrage at her growing awareness of the injustice that has shaped her life: economic disparity & colonial legacy of slavery & white supremacy, her grief, the intensity of her first crush, her solace in the sea. Interspersed with Noemi‘s voice are poems, recipes & the haunting voices of other women from Mauritian history.