What We Carry

Three cities. Three women. Three generations carrying what no one taught them to put down. In New Orleans, Celestine holds a family together with silence and sweet potato pie. In Detroit, Loretta fights a school system designed to forget her son. In Baltimore, a young woman discovers that survival was never supposed to be inherited. What We Carry is a documentary novel about Black families navigating systems that were never built for them — and the love that refuses to break anyway. All characters are fictional. The struggle is not.