Story Letters from Samaná: A Legacy in Seven Generations

By Davey Green

A lyrical companion to Saman Seven Generations, the Livingston Press novel by Davey Green.

Story Letters from Saman traces memory, inheritance, and belonging across nearly two centuries, beginning with the 1824 migration of free Black Americans to Hispaniola and the community they helped build in Saman .

Across generations, names change, languages shift, songs lose verses, and letters disappear into walls.

Elijah crosses the sea searching for a freedom he cannot yet define. Clara grows up between inherited traditions and the rhythms of the world around her. Isaiah records what others are beginning to forget. Camila leaves a letter for a future she will never see. Rueben, Elena, Davey, and Elijah II inherit pieces of what came before, sometimes clearly and sometimes through silence.

Told through lyrical narrative, letters, interludes, memory, and moments of mystical realism, Story Letters from Saman offers a more intimate, dreamlike journey through the generations explored in Saman Seven Generations while standing fully on its own.

Not every connection can be proven. Not every story survives whole.

But sometimes knowing where you come from does not give you an answer.

It gives you somewhere to begin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRF1F18F
• ISBN13: 9798265227454
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"