Caribbean Life 01/23/25

On Jan. 16, Brooklyn native Tyriek White discussed his debut book, “We Are a Haunting” (Astra Publishing House, 2023), in a virtual conversation hosted by the Queens Public Library (QPL).

An excerpt of the book description on the Astra Publishing House website states: “In 1980’s Brooklyn, Key is enchanted with her world, glowing with her dreams. A charming and tender doula serving the Black women of her East New York neighborhood, she lives, like her mother, among the departed and learns to speak to and for them. Her untimely death leaves behind her mother, Audrey, who is on the verge of losing the public housing apartment they once shared.”

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