Ferry Tales

A novel that follows a black millennial woman on a transatlantic journey of self-discovery, blending travel, romance, humor, and cultural reclamation as she reconnects with her African heritage and confronts the legacies of diaspora, identity, and corporate America. Ferry Tales: The Recollection is the story of a 27-year-old African-American who thinks that drank, dank and d*ck are all of her Black Millennial needs. That is until Anana Johnson is yanked by an unexpected, and undeniable, invitation to her best friend’s wedding in West Africa that will send her across oceans, generations, and cultures to reassemble the long-shattered pieces of her identity that were lost somewhere in between by recalling her truth, herself—or sink in the sandy whirlpool. From the city streets of Harlem, New York to the seaside hills of Lisbon, Portugal, to the slave houses in the Senegalese Sahara, Anana is thrust uncontrollably into the troubled waters from which she was birthed. There, she must wade through the tide of generational trauma, language barriers, and modern inconveniences to conquer not only the dark streets of Dakar, Senegal but also the Black labyrinth that is herself. Sprinkle in international romance(s), lost iPhones, and encouraging Atlantic winds and now she’s on…