Off-White

By Roemer Astrid Scott Lucy & McKay

After a two-decade silence, Astrid Roemer returns with a luminous exploration of memory, identity, and the reverberations of colonialism

In 1966 Suriname, as the shadow of colonial rule lingers, Grandma Bee lies dying. The matriarch of a sprawling, mixed-heritage family - Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, Jewish - she commands with a sharp tongue and a smouldering cigar. But as her body falters, so too does the reckoning: with loss, memory, and the bonds that remain when bloodlines scatter.

As illness takes hold, her thoughts return to Heli, a beloved granddaughter exiled to the Netherlands after an affair with her white teacher. She reflects on her descendants - strangers to one another, scattered across continents. What binds them together? What endures when history has fragmented the idea of kin?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1917126093
• ISBN13: 9781917126090
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"