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Description

1. 317 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash--reeling from having witnessed an act of molestation at his school, but still questioning what and who he saw--has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the "River Man." When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys's door bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face what frightens her most. Morowa Yejidé's deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim itself."--Amazon.

Subject

1. Apparitions > Fiction
2. Brothers > Death > Fiction
3. Nephews > Fiction
4. Apparitions
5. Brothers > Death
6. Nephews
7. Washington (D.C.) > Fiction
8. Anacostia River (Md. and Washington, D.C.) > Fiction
9. United States > Anacostia River
10. Washington (D.C.)

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. Ghost stories.
3. Horror fiction.

Call number

1. Sc E 21-948

Author

1. Yejide, Morowa, author.

Title

1. Creatures of passage / Morowa Yejidé.

Publisher

1. Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2021]

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2020936133

ISBN

1. 9781617758768 (hardcover)
2. 1617758760 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. Sc E 21-948