For generations, the women of Camille U. Adams’ family have left their daughters. Some follow the siren call of rum. Others flee from beatings behind closed doors, rushing into any arms that offer refuge. Still others disappear. Mapping the fault lines between mother and child (humanity’s first and supposedly strongest bond), and with a poet’s Homeric vision, Adams’ debut weaves Trinidad's history of colonial violence with her own family’s legacy of abandonment.