The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander

This is a novel in verse that explores the life of a young boy in 19th-century West Africa before the onset of the transatlantic slave trade.

This book contains: alcohol, anxiety, controversial historical commentary, murder, profanity (minor), rape (implied, not explicit), smoking, slavery/kidnapping, starvation and deprivation, suicide out of necessity, (not explicit), torture (explicit) and violence.