THE GROUND BENEATH GOGO’s HOUSE

When Tumaini is sent to spend time with his grandmother, Gogo, in the forgotten town of Eden, he expects boredom and herbal tea, not a rusted, hidden lift buried in the backyard. But once he discovers it, memories begin to stir—his own, and those belonging to generations before him.

Guided by visions, sketches he didn’t draw, and a mysterious woman named Asha—the Keeper of Echoes—Tumaini descends into a city built from memory, loss, and forgotten truths. There, he glimpses the fractured past of his father, Baraka, and uncovers the long-buried silence that shaped their family’s pain.

As dreams blur with reality, and ancestral secrets awaken beneath the soil, Tumaini must confront the stories Gogo never told, the diary of Rehema Achieng’, and the echoes that refuse to be buried. Some truths are too heavy for silence. Some memories wait to be carried forward.

A spellbinding tale of intergenerational memory, ancestral magic, and the healing power of remembrance, The Ground Beneath Gogo’s House is a lyrical journey into the heart of what we inherit—and what we choose to pass on.