Bone Seed

Zora Lewis returns to Jamaica to bury the grandmother who raised her, sell the Kingston house, and resume the precise London life she built far from the island.

In a sewing drawer, she finds a leather pouch of seeds and one instruction: find your grandfather's bone. The seeds belong to no known species. They stay dormant in soil. But when one touches a fragment of human bone, it germinates within hours and turns toward the person whose history it carries.

Guided by her furious teenage daughter and an ageing Maroon tracker, Zora follows the seeds into the limestone maze of the Cockpit Country. Each one leads to a grave. Each bone opens a life Jamaica was taught to forget. And the final seed is pulling toward the man who vanished while the country was being born.

To uncover what happened to him, Zora must excavate the secret her grandmother spent sixty years keeping from her own family.

A lush, piercing novel about mothers and daughters, the ground beneath the diaspora, and the histories that wait for a living body to claim them.