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Creatures Of Passage by Morowa Yejide is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Creatures Of Passage about?
With echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved, Morowa Yejide's novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it. Creatures Of Passage beautifully threads together the stories of Nephthys, Dash, and others both living and dead."Yejidé follows up her debut, Time of the Locust (2014), with a deeper, broader, and more audacious immersion in magical realism... Historic detail and mythic folklore forge a scary, thrilling vision of life along America's margins." - Kirkus ReviewsNephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless acrides 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," who somehow ap
Who reads Creatures Of Passage?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Morowa Yejide
- Publisher
- Akashic Books
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780861541843
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (199 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14