The human origins of Beatrice Porter and other essential ghosts / Soraya Palmer.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781646220953
- ISBN: 1646220951
- Physical Description: 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Catapult edtion.
- Publisher: New York : Catapult, 2023.
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Subject: | Sisters > Fiction. Sisters > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. Black women > Fiction. Women, Black > Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Novels. |
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SORAYA PALMER is a Flatbush-born-and-raised writer and licensed social worker who advocates for survivors of gender-based violence who are facing criminal charges related to their abuse. She has been awarded a residency at Blue Mountain Center and interviewed for her work against police brutality, gentrification, and violence in The New York Times and BuzzFeed News. She lives in New York.