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Morowa Yejide

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MOROWA YEJIDÉ, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Time of the Locust, which was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize, long-listed for the 2015 PEN/Bingham Prize, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons. Her most recent novel, Creatures of Passage, was shortlisted for Women's Prize, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and a 2021 Notable Book selection by NPR and the Washington Post.
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Average rating: 3.95 · 1,618 ratings · 344 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Creatures of Passage

3.97 avg rating — 1,445 ratings — published 2021 — 13 editions
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Time of the Locust

3.81 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions
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“The Conundrum of Three. It's the mind seeking the memory of a body long gone, and the body withdrawing from the mind and the spirit, and the spirit chasing the echo of the other two”
Morowa Yejide, Creatures of Passage

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