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In the early 1900s, Saba, a five-square-mile Caribbean island unknown to most of the world, is an "island of women," a place where men become sea captains to provide for their families and women are left at home to navigate the challenges of isolation and poverty. 

SEABIRDS CARRY ME HOME follows three generations of Saban women in one family who are bound by a haunting legacy, until their descendant raised in the U.S. returns to the island with hope of bringing the truth to light and offering a chance to reshape their future.

 "I sat by my mother’s side shelling peas, rolling out pie crust, churning laundry through the wringer washer and learning how to sew clothes. She taught me that when I was upset, busy hands could be a comfort. My mother said she wanted more for me. She wanted me to have the education that I would not be able to get on Saba. At ten, I did not understand this. I thought I was plenty educated, and I couldn’t see my leaving as anything but punishment, as if I was being cast out of the garden like Adam and Eve. She’d sent me into something that she had never seen herself, into a world so large it shrank me over and over."