Devoney Looser

Remnant

Fiction

“So little information survives about Joanna Vassa, the mixed-race daughter of eighteenth-century Black abolitionist and bestselling author Olaudah Equiano. In her fine novel Remnant, author Katie Sweeting fills in the blanks about Joanna and her extended family, imagining what their experiences might have been in early nineteenth-century England. Sweeting’s vivid, moving work of historical fiction is a gift to readers in its conjuring up of the Equiano family’s remarkable, long-forgotten women.”