Lottie Rebecca Lee is spoken into this world in Fayetteville, North Carolina, by a Black nurse who declares, “Lord Jesus, if that ain’t the blackest little baby born this side of heaven.” Later, her schoolmates chant “Tar Baby.” What they do not understand, she eventually proves: she is the ancestors’ promise to unearth the Mississippi and Ghanaian atrocities that have held them all in a place of torment. This includes her grandfather Benjamin Lee, who was born during the Great Depression among the red clay tobacco fields of Mississippi, and his son, Benjamin Junior (Lottie Rebecca’s father), born in Fayetteville amidst the post–Korean War GI Bill promises of prosperity. These two generations of Black men are haunted by the mother-spirit who did not survive their post-traumatic stress violence. Trinity is the tale of the daughter-spirit born in the late seventies to a son struggling to tame the invasive choking vines of Vietnam War flashbacks. She will stitch love back into the fragmen