An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience and self-discovery are passed down through generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family.<\/b><\/p>\n
When Jayanti, an eighteen-year-old Indian widow condemned to <\/span>sati<\/span><\/i>\u2014<\/span>the ritual burning of a wife on her husband\u2019s funeral pyre<\/span>\u2014<\/span>survives what was meant to be her death, she is cast out of her world and forced into indentureship in Trinidad. Her survival saves her life, but it also fractures it, marking the start of a lineage shaped by exile, silence, and unspoken grief.<\/span><\/p>\n From Jayanti, this novel-in-stories moves through generations of her descendants in Trinidad: daughters, sons, and lovers, struggling to build lives under the long shadow of what came before. They will navigate love, marriage, colourism, gendered violence, and the inheritance of trauma. Myth and folklore will thread through their everyday lives as gods, spirits, and landscapes speak alongside human voices, insisting that the past is not finished with them yet.<\/span><\/p>\n Fierce, lyrical, and deeply compassionate, <\/span>Ever Since We Small<\/span><\/i> explores how survival can echo across generations, how families carry wounds they never name, and how healing begins when someone finally dares to choose life.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience and self-discovery are passed down through generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family. When Jayanti, an eighteen-year-old Indian widow condemned to sati\u2014the ritual burning of a wife on her husband\u2019s funeral pyre\u2014survives what was meant to be her death, she is cast out of her world and forced…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"retailer":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[347],"product_tag":[586,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-6380","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literary-fiction","7":"product_tag-celeste-mohammed","8":"product_tag-literary-fiction","9":"thb-post-share-style1","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-variable"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n