ALT Screenshot of a book deal announcement over photo of rocky beach with coconut trees. Text reads: Atlantic editor Lenika Cruz’s Drown Sirena, a coming of age memoir and cultural history of Guam tracing how grief and abuse can shatter a child’s sense of identity, examining the spiritual and bodily toll of war, migration, and inter generational trauma on Pacific Islanders living in a modern day American colony, ultimately asking what it means to be dispossessed of one’s story and home—and what it takes to reclaim them, to Jenny Xu at Atria, in a good deal, in a preempt, for publication in 2025, by Lucy Carson and Marin Takikawa at friedrich agency (world).