{"product_id":"we-are-a-haunting-9781662601712","title":"We Are a Haunting","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"What a beautiful, haunting and hued narrative of American living. I'm in love with this story and the way Tyriek White breathes life into these characters.\" --Jacqueline Woodson, MacArthur Fellow and author of \u003ci\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"This novel is so New York--so, so New York--yet so deeply southern on lower frequencies. It's astonishing.\" --Kiese Laymon, MacArthur Fellow and author of \u003ci\u003eLong Division\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, \u003ci\u003eWe Are a Haunting \u003c\/i\u003efollows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eWe Are a Haunting \u003c\/i\u003eunravels 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Astra House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/25\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781662601712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tyriek White","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42753423704245,"sku":"9781662601712","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e5b62939-7141-4ec1-a860-fe47dfc82244.jpg?v=1677594933","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/we-are-a-haunting-9781662601712","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}