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A review by afloodofbooks
Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejidé
5.0
Morowa Yejidé both broke me and made me feel many things. Creatures of Passage is poetic and heart breakingly beautiful. Seeing Anacostia and Washington DC as a whole through her eyes is both dark and beautiful..
It was hard to put down, the prose itself kept me reading as the story drug me along.. it broke my heart as I was reminded of how much we are all just looking to belong and are afraid to lose it when we find it, that we all have stories to tell (yes, children too) and we often don’t have the words of the patience to listen and hear the stories of others. Yejidé beautifully demonstrates just as large and at the same time small the world and it’s kingdoms are and how deeply interconnected we all are, often without realizing.
I can’t wait to see what she writes next.
It was hard to put down, the prose itself kept me reading as the story drug me along.. it broke my heart as I was reminded of how much we are all just looking to belong and are afraid to lose it when we find it, that we all have stories to tell (yes, children too) and we often don’t have the words of the patience to listen and hear the stories of others. Yejidé beautifully demonstrates just as large and at the same time small the world and it’s kingdoms are and how deeply interconnected we all are, often without realizing.
I can’t wait to see what she writes next.