Creatures of Passage

"Morowa Yejidé transports us to 1977 Anacostia – a historic neighborhood of D.C. too often overlooked by tourists, pundits and fiction writers – and reimagines the city as a mystical realm nestled between the “kingdoms” of Virginia and Maryland. With a murdered girl’s ghost in the trunk of a Plymouth Belvedere, an aging woman’s mystical connection to her dead twin brother and the death prophecies of an estranged niece, the novel is worthy of every Toni Morrison comparison it receives, effortlessly blending the brutalities of D.C.’s history with the mythical and supernatural. Creatures of Passage is a lyrical journey that will stick with you."