Bernardine Evaristo's 'Blonde Roots' is a brilliantly subversive and satirical novel that boldly reimagines the history of transatlantic slavery. In this provocative alternate reality, Africans are the dominant enslavers, and Europeans are the enslaved, transported across the 'Great White Ocean' to work on plantations. The narrative follows the harrowing journey and experiences of Doris Scagglethorpe, an 'Anglo-Saxon' girl abducted from her village. Evaristo masterfully uses this inversion to challenge conventional perspectives on race, power, and privilege, forcing readers to confront the brutal realities of human bondage from an entirely new and unsettling viewpoint. It's a powerful exploration of historical injustice and a thought-provoking critique of racial hierarchies.