Join us in welcoming Morowa Yejidé in discussing her new novel Creatures of Passage, a story of ghosts, family, and an unseen Washington DC.

About Creatures of Passage:

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. 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.

Morowa Yejidé, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Time of the Locust, which was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize, long-listed for the 2015 PEN/Bingham Prize, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons. Creatures of Passage is her second novel.

Amma Addo is a DC book community leader and curator of DC Bookstagram culture. Amma's love of reading was nurtured in a family of bibliophiles. She enjoys reading sci-fi, fantasy, literary fiction and poetry with a focus on #ownvoices stories. When she is not reading, Amma is curating reading lists for family and close friends, listening to podcasts, watching true crime films/shows and growing her TBR lists.

Creatures of Passage is available at Lost City Books!