We Are a Haunting, the Mississippi-by-way-of-New-York writer’s debut novel, tells of rent, eviction and ghosts in the projects
review that praised its ambition “to capture and to celebrate not just these characters, this family, but the community and the city they emerge from, serve, and love”.The book is very much rooted, and to keep it a hundred, in that I wanted to write a story about my neighborhood. It’s very particular: The Boulevard Houses, New York, Brooklyn. And [it’s also rooted in] that idea that what you write, however specific it is, can be universal.
But how does one exist more deeply than the traumas or victimhood? … I wanted to hopefully depict people who aren’t flat characters that things just kind of happen to, but are autonomous, who are grounded, and at the same time knocked down by normal realities. And the story involves so much: the Great Migration and a kind of future space where my [housing] project is now half-owned by a private realty group.
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