The Disposable's Daughter

She was adopted. She was loved. She was given a breathtakingly beautiful life. Then she took a DNA test.

Trish Montgomery has always known she is white, adopted, and deeply loved by her Black parents. But when a college genealogy project reveals that her ancestors were slave owners—and that one of the fourteen people they owned, a woman named Patience, may also be her father's ancestor—her world shatters.

Haunted by the possibility that her bloodline enslaved her family by love, Trish embarks on a journey through centuries of atrocity: from the holds of slave ships to Nazi laboratories, from Native American boarding schools to the death marches of Armenia, from the siege of Gaza to the loopholes of international law.

Along the way, she meets survivors who ask the same question she cannot escape: What do we owe the dead?

The Disposable's Daughter is a brutally gripping novel about inheritance and witness, about guilt and action, about the breathtakingly beautiful life one woman was given—and the price that was paid for it.