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Morowa Yejidé

MOROWA YEJIDÉ, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novels 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; and Creatures of Passage, which was short-listed for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, long-listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and was a 2021 Notable Book selection by NPR and the Washington Post. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons.

Author Events

• Sep 29, 2022: Akashic All-Stars event – Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn Book Festival Bookend Event (Brooklyn, New York)
• Oct 15, 2022: Morowa Yejidé – Fall For the Book (Fairfax, VA)

Titles

Creatures of Passage

By: Morowa Yejidé

With echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it.

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