Captures daily life in Sierra Leone, one Betsy first encountered as a Peace Corps worker and then rediscovered when she returned decades later with her daughter. Living in Tokpombu, the author faced struggles that changed her forever and witnessed the growing tensions in this rainforest village—between the young and old, between the traditions of oral history and honoring the ancestors valued by the elders and the siren call of the illicit diamond mines faced by the youth.