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Morowa Yejide

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Washington D.C., The United States

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http://www.morowayejide.com/

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Fiction

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Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, Paulo Coelho, Gabrie ...more

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MOROWA YEJIDÉ, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Time of the Locust, which was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize, long-listed for the 2015 PEN/Bingham Prize, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons. Her most recent novel, Creatures of Passage, was shortlisted for Women's Prize, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and a 2021 Notable Book selection by NPR and the Washington Post.
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Morowa Yejide's Blog: New Book: Creatures of Passage

New time! Join Creatures of Passage DC Reads Virtual Book Club Dec 4!

https://www.dclibrary.org/dc-reads

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Published on November 07, 2023 13:23 • Tags: dc-reads-virtual-book-club

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Average rating: 3.95 · 1,717 ratings · 358 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Creatures of Passage 3.96 avg rating — 1,536 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time of the Locust 3.82 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sign & Breath by Dominique Christina, Shanta Lee (Editor), Philip Brady (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Morowa Yejide (?)

“The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two”
― Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage

tags: existential

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