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The human origins of Beatrice Porter and other essential ghosts : a novel / Soraya Palmer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Catapult, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Catapult edtionDescription: 277 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781646220953
  • 1646220951
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
What's My Name? A Prelude -- Part I: Origins. Anansi's Daughters -- Devil in the Shape of a Rooster -- Tall Tales from Sasha Also Known as Ashes aka the Mannish Girl -- Once Upon a Time: Featuring Star Scars & Dreams of Flight -- Part II: Essential Ghosts. Sky Full a Curry and Purple Balloon -- Two Brothers, the Rolling Calf, and the Wind Herself -- Sasha & the Photograph -- An Unfortunate Event on Maple Street -- The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts -- Part III: Beatrice. Lost in Her Story -- Dglo -- The Anansi Stories -- Instructions for Communicating with Dead Mothers.
Summary: Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know--and confront a long-buried family secret.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction PALMER, SORAYA Available 33111011069057
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction PALMER, SORAYA Available 33111011297583
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Fiction PALMER, SORAYA Available 33111009478203
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Mothers never die. Children love to resurrect us in they stories."

Folktales and spirits animate this lively and unforgettable coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grappling with their mother's illness, their father's infidelity, and the truth of their family's past

Sisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, an unsettled Zora escapes into her journal, dreaming of being a writer, while Sasha discovers sex and chest binding, spending more time with her new girlfriend than at home.

But the sisters, like their parents, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know--and reckon with a family secret buried in the past. A tale told from the perspective of a mischievous narrator, featuring the Rolling Calf who haunts butchers, Mama Dglo who lives in the ocean, a vain tiger, and an outsmarted snake, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts is set in a world as alive and unpredictable as Helen Oyeyemi's.

Telling of the love between sisters who don't always see eye to eye, this extraordinary debut novel is a celebration of the power of stories, asking, What happens to us when our stories are erased? Do we disappear? Or do we come back haunting?

Two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn, Zora and Sasha Porter, drifting apart as they bear witness to their father's violence and their mother's worsening illness, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know--and confront a long-buried family secret.

What's My Name? A Prelude -- Part I: Origins. Anansi's Daughters -- Devil in the Shape of a Rooster -- Tall Tales from Sasha Also Known as Ashes aka the Mannish Girl -- Once Upon a Time: Featuring Star Scars & Dreams of Flight -- Part II: Essential Ghosts. Sky Full a Curry and Purple Balloon -- Two Brothers, the Rolling Calf, and the Wind Herself -- Sasha & the Photograph -- An Unfortunate Event on Maple Street -- The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts -- Part III: Beatrice. Lost in Her Story -- Dglo -- The Anansi Stories -- Instructions for Communicating with Dead Mothers.

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