Creatures Of Passage Av Morowa Yejide

<p><b>Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Fiction 2022.</b><br><br>Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: 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.<br><br>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," who somehow appears each time he goes there.<br><br>When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys''s door one day bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face both the family she abandoned and what f