With echoes of Toni Morrison's Beloved , Yejidé's novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it. "Yejidé’s writing captures both real news and spiritual truths with the deftness and capacious imagination of her writing foremothers: Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison and N.K. Jemisin… Creatures of Passage is that rare novel that dispenses ancestral wisdom and literary virtuosity in equal measure."– Washington Post " Creatures of Passage...
