BookDragon Morowa Yejidé Tag

02 Feb, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost

Back in 1977, “Anacostia was still the New World, an isle of blood and desire.” In Washington, DC-native Morowa Yejidé’s (Time of the Locust, 2014) moody, bleak sophomore title, boundaries between the living and the dead are indiscernible. Once upon a time, Nephthys and Osiris...