The Twelfth House by de la Chevotiere, Robert
The Twelfth House by de la Chevotiere, Robert

The Twelfth House

The vengeful spirit of an unborn child draws her father from the Bight of Biafra onto a...
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Author: Robert de la Chevotiere
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Twelfth House by de la Chevotiere, Robert

The Twelfth House

$33.60
The Twelfth House by de la Chevotiere, Robert

The Twelfth House

$33.60
Author: Robert de la Chevotiere
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The vengeful spirit of an unborn child draws her father from the Bight of Biafra onto a slave ship bound for the harshly colonized Caribbean island of Dominica in this lush historical novel infused with magical realism and rooted in West African mythology for readers of Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Water Dancer and River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer.

Etta is an ogbanje, an unborn soul trapped in a cycle of conception and death in the wombs of one family. A gifted siren in the twelfth house of the zodiac--the house of secrets, of dreams, and of death--her voice unleashes ethereal songs that consume listeners with fear. Her desperate desire to live compels her father, Bako, into the hands of his captors of the coast of 18th-century Benin and carries him on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic to enslavement on a sugarcane plantation in Dominica.

Bako's defiant spirit--and Etta's fervent wish to be born--soon lead him to escape into the mountains. There, he has a fateful encounter with the Kalinaga woman named Mary who will ensure Etta's birth into the mortal world. But the child Etta bears physical scars of her many spiritual deaths, bringing her father to suspect the truth of his daughter's origins. As the landowners and tradesmen who enslave Etta's people feel her wrath and inflame rebellion, Bako fears it is the rebellion within which is the gravest.

Author: Robert de la Chevotiere
Publisher: Erewhon Books
Published: 08/25/2026
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781645662037

About the Author
Robert de la Chevotiere is an Afro-Caribbean immigrant to Canada, who teaches French and English language arts. He is a member of the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia and has recently had a poem published in Arc Poetry Magazine's 2021 fall issue.
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