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Morowa Yejidé

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.

Author Events

• Mar 16, 2021: VIRTUAL EVENT: Morowa Yejidé – Mahogany Books
• Mar 25, 2021: VIRTUAL EVENT: Morowa Yejidé–River Bend Bookshop
• Apr 7, 2021: VIRTUAL EVENT: Morowa Yejidé – Loyalty Bookstore

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Creatures of Passage

By: Morowa Yejidé

Forthcoming: 3/16/21

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