The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts: A Novel Cover:Hardcover A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019

Jason Reynolds (All American Boys)

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Age Range:  4 - 7

The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts: A Novel Cover:Hardcover A Kirkus Reviews Best MiddleMothers never die. Children love to resurrect us in they stories.Folktales and spirits animate this lively and unforgettable coming of age tale of two Jamaican Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grappling with their mothers illness, their father's infidelity, and the truth of their family's pastSisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness to their fathers violence and their mothers worsening illness, an unsettled Zora escapes into