Beneath The Coconut Island Stars

Traditions, Love, Lust, and Betrayal

von Jerry Yonga

222 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Some mothers give their children everything. One mother had to give her child away.On Coconut Island, people remember.They remember the weddings, the promises, the betrayals, and the secrets families would rather leave buried.Leila Krishna is young, intelligent, and hopeful when she marries Raj Maharaj. Their wedding carries all the expectations of family, tradition, and a community watching from close enough to notice everything. But marriage reveals a man different from the one who courted her, and Leila is eventually forced to make an impossible choice: remain inside a life that is destroying her, or leave behind everything she loves.Including her baby.More than two decades later and thousands of miles away, Zara has grown up in America surrounded by the love of Carol and David, the parents who raised her. She knows she was adopted. What she does not know is where she came from, why her birth mother gave her away, or whether the family she lost still remembers her.A DNA test changes everything.One match leads to another. A name emerges. Then an island.Zara begins following a thread that stretches from America to Cameroon, across the Caribbean, and into a family history shaped by love, silence, migration, motherhood, regret, and survival.But finding where you came from is not the same as knowing where you belong.And returning home does not erase what happened there.Beneath the Coconut Island Stars is a sweeping family novel about mothers and daughters, marriage and betrayal, African traditions, adoption, migration, forgiveness, and the complicated meaning of home.From Dr. Jerry Yonga, author of The Wives of Coconut Island, comes another story from a small island where everyone watches, families remember, and the truth eventually finds its way home.Traditions. Love. Lust. Betrayal. And a daughter searching for the mother who never stopped loving her.The manuscript supports this positioning particularly well: Zara's search does not reject her adoptive parents; Carol and David explicitly understand that she can hold more than one belonging at once. And the ending preserves that complexity rather than replacing one family with another.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175412285
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published