The Missy Box

The Missy Box In 1685 two ten-year-old girls cross the Atlantic, one in the hold of a slave ship, and the other at the Captain's table of a royal Danish ship. On St. Thomas their lives will become intertwined, along with that of Mette, the brothel keeper, and Isaac and Pundi, two other wanderers who have landed in this fomenting place at the dawn of its plantation history. Eighty-five years later, in Copenhagen, this family story is uncovered by Maria Suhm, the way many are, through treasures ke