The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

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With their parents' marriage falling apart, the pair navigate their own relationships and secrets - Zora has impure thoughts about a jock, and Sasha drinks cheap beer with a girl who binds her chest. The Anansi Stories that captivated them as children begin to creep into the present, revealing truths about the Porter family's past they must all face up to. Do we disappear? The story follows the siblings as they navigate their own relationships and secrets, while also dealing with their parents' marriage falling apart. While they possess fragments of mythical stories about their father Nigel's flight to America on a purple balloon, the violent histories concealed in their mother Beatrice's book of Anansi Stories, and the mention of Nigel's brother, their knowledge is limited. Sun: 10am-6pm "A dazzling debut novel weaving together Caribbean myth and the contemporary story of multiple generations of one immigrant family Zora and Sasha Porter don't know much of their Jamaican father Nigel's and Trinidadian mother Beatrice's pasts.