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02094aam a2200325 i 4500 001 A66CFF44C29E11EB8BB6CF4559ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210601010009 007 n 008 210405s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a oc2021001286 020 $a 1617758760 020 $a 9781617758768 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Yejide, Morowa. 245 1 $a Creatures of passage / $c Morowa Yejid. 264 1 $a Brooklyn, New York : $b Akashic Books, $c [2021] 300 $a 317 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 520 $a "Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash--reeling from having witnessed an act of molestation at his school, but still questioning what and who he saw--has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the 'River Man.' When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys's door bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face what frightens her most. Morowa Yejid婉's deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim itself"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20210514. 650 $a Ghost stories. 650 1 $a Brothers $x Death $v Fiction. 650 $a Nephews $v Fiction. 650 $a Apparitions $v Fiction. 651 $a Anacostia River (Md. and Washington, D.C.) $v Fiction. 651 $a Washington (D.C) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. 941 $a 1 952 $l WSPF215 $d 20210601010702.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A66CFF44C29E11EB8BB6CF4559ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search