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Author Palmer, Soraya, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Catapult, 2023.
©2023

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F PALMER, S.    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - New Materials  FICTION PALMER, SORAYA    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult New Materials  F PALMER SORAYA    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  FIC PALM    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  PALMER, SORAYA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  PLAMER, SORAYA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC PALMER, S    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F PALMER, S.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F PALMER, SORAYA    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC PALMER    Check Shelf

Edition First Catapult edtion.
Description 277 pages ; 24 cm
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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.
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 Unfortuante 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.
Subject Sisters -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Family secrets. (OCoLC)fst01737651
Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
Women, Black. (OCoLC)fst01178916
New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn. (OCoLC)fst01312516
Genre/Form Novels.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
ISBN 9781646220953 (hardcover)
1646220951 (hardcover)
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