The Sun is My Undoing A Novel

"An absorbing story, with a vast canvas -- Bristol. of the slave trading days, the Middle Passage, the Gold Coast, the African interior, Barbados and plantation life, Cuba and Creole society the Barbary Coast, once again England, London and Bristol. And the cast of characters, many threaded plots, are all brought together at the close as a devious romance is shattered and new patterns established. Matthew Flood, whose love was broken on the issue of slavery; Pallas, who chose the cause of abolition instead of happiness; the haunted line of tainted descendants from Matthew's passion for a Negro beauty; and the resultant crisscross of love and tragedy. The story begins and ends in Bristol, a holding tale, superbly wrought, and there's the best picture of the slave trade I've read..."--Kirkus.