'We Are A Haunting' is a stunningly original, beautiful novel of devotion
Tyriek White's debut novel is a triumph; it's a gorgeous book about loss and survival that gives and gives as it asks us what it means to be part of a family, of a community.
by Michael Schaub
Apr 27, 2023
3 minutes
In the prologue to Tyriek White's debut novel, We Are a Haunting, Colly speaks to his mother, Key, who died unexpectedly, leaving him in a constant state of grief and rootlessness. "You were just gone one morning," he says. "And I know it sounds like I blame you but I don't."
"Yes, you do," his mother replies.
Key, who regularly appears to her son, may have a point. Mourning is inextricable from confusion; we blame the dead,
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