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Palmer, Soraya, author.

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

First Catapult edtion.

New York : Catapult, [2023]

©2023

277 pages ; 24 cm

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.

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.

Sisters -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

Women, Black -- Fiction.

Black interest.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.

9781646220953 (hardcover)

1646220951 (hardcover)