I Am Coolie
“I thought I knew who I was…then I found out!"
This story is written in first person from the point of view of two mixed race teen-agers. It has a time slip narrative, which is revealed as the teenagers uncover the back-story surrounding their heritage.
Both Luke and Ava go to a private city day school and don’t know each other until one night they are in the wrong place at the wrong time and witness a brutal murder. As the details of the gang involved in this ritualistic, racially motivated hate crime emerge, both Luke and Ava begin to unravel their own roots and their family’s history in the brutal and violent lives as indentured slaves of the British colonies in Fiji and Mauritius. The pain and the pride that has kept this part of their families history a secret for so long is exposed and with significant consequences.