Leslie’s people, who are also Tesla’s people, after centuries of exploitation and abuse, refuse to remain genocided, on the brink of extinction. Even from beyond the grave.
American-born Leslie doesn’t know why her family holds itself in such unbridled contempt, hobbling them at every turn. She doesn’t know she’s from a gruesomely persecuted minority, and that her family’s tortured self-concept is a symptom of that genocide.
But devoted family ghosts tenderly haunt her and lead her to her own kind, the Americans by far the most familiar, who model pride in what is her own innate identity, and show her how to survive it.
