The New Moon's Arms

Nalo Hopkinson · first published 2007 · ISBN 9780792747352

Calamity Lambkin is fifty-something, experiencing menopause in a fictional Caribbean island nation, when she discovers she has the power to locate lost things. A mysterious nearly-drowned child appears on her beach; she names him Agway and suspects he may be the merperson of island folklore. As her hot flashes intensify, objects from her past resurface: childhood treasures, a bloodstained machete, the weight of slavery's shadow, neighbors' concerns about a woman harboring a strange boy.