What We Carried Across the Sea

By Brinda Phokeerdass

What We Carried Across the Sea

In 1882, Kamla, a widowed woman marked by debt and suspicion, presses her thumb into a recruiter's ledger and becomes 147. Alongside a haunted river-man, a scarred girl, and a disgraced scholar, she crosses the Kala Pani-the black water that severs caste, memory, and home-to become indentured labour in the sugar fields of Mauritius. Through storms, sickness, and the brutal grind of the cane, Kamla must learn what can truly be carried across an ocean: not possessions, but the fragile, defiant threads of song, memory, and a bond that could become a new kind of home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMYTCK24
• ISBN13: 9798233336584
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Keshav Kumar Phokeerdass
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"