Author: James, Chantal, 1985-
Publication year: 2023
Format: Book
Publisher: Counterpoint
Resource type: Physical
ISBN: 1640095624 9781640095625 (pbk.) :
Notes: In 17th-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. 4 centuries later, 19-year-old Ham is set adrift from his hometown of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. Hidden beneath his clothes, he wears a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl. When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home, he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face: is Miss Pearl still alive?