The moving sands, by: Neela Larsen

Racism has permeated American society for decades, and the American people have drowned in boundless hatred against Blacks, who had no choice but to revolt against laws and customs that deprived them of their civil and social rights. Amid this racist environment, the heroine of our novel, Helga Green, the orphaned Black girl, emerges to take a completely different path from her race. Helga chose to revolt against her origins and her black color, which killed her innocence, tarnished her past, and assassinated her present and future, holding her race directly responsible for a bitterness that constantly eats away at her heart, shatters her existence, and violates her happiness. Thus, she began a long journey in search of happiness. Helga wandered through the land, disguising her origins, chasing after safety, belonging, and a embrace that would heal her tender and ancient wound. But during her journey, she discovers the truth: the truth of her feelings, desires, past, and loved ones. She re-initiates her revolt again against a painful reality she chose of her own free will. We accompany Helga in this novel to explore the hidden world of women and their struggle with themselves, and their continuous search for happiness, just like any woman, or any human being on this earth. Happiness that humans have been seeking since they existed on this earth. Will Helga find it? And where? Will she reconcile with her past? Or is the journey of self-discovery a perpetual one that only ends with death? And how will the journey of Helga Green end, a journey whose details intersect with all our journeys in this life?