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Four women from Haiti, St. Thomas, and Guam meet at a college counseling session for first-year students, and learn they have a shared history of abuse. Dubbing themselves the “island sisters,” their unyielding friendship is their touchstone across oceans, through labyrinths of forced marriages and violent men, motherhood, and their dreams of freedom.

Addie Edwards was just trying to get home. That’s all. When she boarded flight 393, the direct flight she had booked from Seattle, Washington to Nashville, Tennessee, she was relieved to finally be going home after an exhausting week of helping her sister with her wedding but when the plane unexpectedly reroutes to Hawaii, her relief quickly turns to panic. After that, the plane gets rerouted again to another destination after a passenger gets hurt and needs immediate attention. Addie can’t help but wonder what’s going on, is her life in danger and will she ever make it home?