With that said, the novel’s pacing is slow and poetic. For Lou, anything can happen, and that is both frightening and glorious because frequently she’s not in control. Perhaps the most intriguing thing about The Perishing lies at its core with the ability of a Black woman immortal to navigate seemingly endless planes of existence. Finding out the purpose of having many lives becomes paramount. Haunted by nightmares of her past lives and the recurring face of her past lover, Lou is cast into a fantastical journey to not only understand herself but also to save the world.
However, on a very human quest for self-knowledge, she discovers that there is something strange about her - she’s immortal. Trying to weave together the past, present and future, Lou grows up, becomes the first Black woman journalist at the Los Angeles Times and makes new friends. She is adopted by her foster parents as she tries to recall who her birth parents are and what happened to them. Also having supernatural themes, The Perishing centers around the character Lou, a young Black woman living in 1930s Los Angeles who wakes up in an alley one day with little memory of her past, yet she swears something similar happening before.
It depicts a ghost story similar to Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Her 2016 debut novel, Grace focuses on a runaway slave during the final years of slavery in the 1840s south.
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