Description: " An absolute triumph." Michael Schaub NPR " Astonishing." Kiese Laymon Mac Arthur Fellow and author of Long Division " What a beautiful haunting and hued narrative of American living. I m in love with this story." Jacqueline Woodson Mac Arthur 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.
Title: We Are A Haunting A Novel
Barcode: 9781662601712
Publication Date: 4/25/2023