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<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After a two-decade silence Astrid Roemer returns with a luminous exploration of memory identity and the reverberations of colonialism</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 1966 Suriname as the shadow of colonial rule lingers Grandma Bee lies dying. The matriarch of a sprawling mixed-heritage family - Creole Maroon French Indian Indigenous British Jewish - she commands with a sharp tongue and a smouldering cigar. But as her body falters so too does the reckoning: with loss memory and the bonds that remain when bloodlines scatter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As illness takes hold her thoughts return to Heli a beloved granddaughter exiled to the Netherlands after an affair with her white teacher. She reflects on her descendants - strangers to one another scattered across continents. What binds them together? What endures when history has fragmented the idea of kin?</span></p>