We Are A Haunting Tyriek White by Tyriek White 9781662601729, 1662601727 instant download after payment.

Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize

A poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward & Jamel Brinkley, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family & their inherited ghosts: a story of hope & transformation. 

In 1980’s Brooklyn, Key is enchanted with her world, glowing with her dreams. A charming & tender doula serving the Black women of her East New York neighborhood, she lives, like her mother, among the departed & learns to speak to & 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 & begins to slip into the liminal space between the living & the dead on his journey to self-realization.

In the present, an expulsion from school forces Colly across town where, feeling increasingly detached & 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, & how to foster love in places where it seems impossible, Colly returns to East New York to work toward addressing structural neglect & 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, & a lyrical & potent account of displaced lives, We Are a Haunting unravels the threads connecting the past, present, & future, & depicts the palpable, breathing essence of the neglected corridors of a pulsing city with pathos & poise.

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Tyriek Rashawn White is a writer, musician, & educator from Brooklyn, NY.