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ISBN10: 1662602669
ISBN13: 9781662602665
Publisher: Astra House
Published: Apr 16 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781662602665
Publisher: Astra House
Published: Apr 16 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.91 Depth: 9.13
Language: English
You are where we have always existed. Where I falls away from You and the welling you've felt all along, all from living, spills out. You are home, and we are with you. This is the Black diaspora transcending time and space. It suggests that the Black I cannot precede the Black we--nor should it.
-Omari Weekes, The New York Review of Books WINNER - 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize A Best Book of 2023 - NPR, Electric Literature, Largehearted Boy, Black Girl Nerds, Le Noir Auteur An absolute triumph. --Michael Schaub, NPR What a beautiful, haunting and hued narrative of American living. I'm in love with this story. --Jacqueline Woodson, MacArthur Fellow and author of Another Brooklyn A poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation. In 1980's Brooklyn, Key is enchanted with her world, glowing with her dreams. A charming and tender doula serving the Black women of her East New York neighborhood, she lives, like her mother, among the departed and learns to speak to and for them. Her untimely death leaves behind her mother Audrey, who is on the verge of losing the public housing apartment they once shared. Colly, Key's grieving son, soon learns that he too has inherited this sacred gift and begins to slip into the liminal space between the living and the dead on his journey to self-realization. In the present, an expulsion from school forces Colly across town where, feeling increasingly detached and disenchanted with the condition of his community, he begins to realize that he must, ultimately, be accountable to the place he is from. After college, having forged an understanding of friendship, kinship, community, and how to foster love in places where it seems impossible, Colly returns to East New York to work toward addressing structural neglect and the crumbling blocks of New York City public housing he was born to; discovering a collective path forward from the wreckages of the past. A supernatural family saga, a searing social critique, and a lyrical and potent account of displaced lives, We Are a Haunting unravels the threads connecting the past, present, and future, and depicts the palpable, breathing essence of the neglected corridors of a pulsing city with pathos and poise.
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