Where to start with this beautifully written narrative of the brutality imbued throughout an enslaved young woman’s extraordinary existence. After Annis’s mother is wrenched away by the enslaver who also fathered her, Annis, too, is sold and must travel from the Carolinas to a Louisiana sugarcane plantation by way of the New Orleans’ slave markets. Let Us Descend is about the spirits who both guide and manipulate and the mothers who are ever present even when stolen. Never will Annis relinquish her humanity to those who desire to own it. This is not a mere story of survival. It is one of reclamation.