We Are a Haunting: A Novel essays The book’s nameless narrator describes

The book’s nameless narrator describes growing up in a black community in the South

yet she offers a reprieve for the anger and sadness Ebony feels about losing so much

where everything that was once familiar develops a veneer of strangeness when seen through newer

for politically engaged people outside the academy” (Alexis Okeowo

” comprised of visceral

We Are a Haunting: A Novel essays The book’s nameless narrator describesA 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 1980s 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