Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging

One woman's epic journey to trace the global slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean in this searing memoir for fans of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped.

An adventurous blend of personal and cultural history from a star National Geographic Explorer and "a pioneer and an inspiration."—Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love

When Tara Roberts first caught sight of a photograph at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History d...