Crossing Waters: A Novel (English Edition)

CROSSING WATERS is the story of Robin, a seventeen-year-old African slave from Barbados, who escapes on arrival at Charleston and stows away on the same vessel to New York. He manages to obtain his freedom by dubious means, but unluckily, is spotted by Sarah, a member of his former owner’s household. Sarah Haynes, refrains from turning him over to the authorities but later, her unfulfilled longings push her to make him the object of her sexual gratification.  Robin is bound by fear, pride and his love for Aisha, Sarah’s maid. Her husband, Edmund Haynes’s discovery of his wife’s infidelity and Aisha’s betrayal by both her fiancée and mistress, combine to produce an outcome, for four lives intertwined by love, death, and circumstance, that is both tragic and confounding.