Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022.Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in
Washington DC ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with
a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her
twin brother Osiris who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River.Unknown to Nephthys
when the novel opens in 1977 her estranged great-nephew ten-year-old Dash is finding himself
drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash-reeling from having witnessed
an act of molestation at his school but still questioning what and who he saw-has charmed
conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the River Man who somehow appears each time he
goes there.When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys's door one day bearing a cryptic note
about his unusual conversations with the River Man Nephthys must face both the family she
abandoned and what frightens her most when she looks in the mirror.Creatures of Passage
beautifully threads together the stories of Nephthys Dash and others both living and dead.
Morowa Yejidé's deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington D.C. filled with
otherworldly landscapes flawed super-humans and reluctant ghosts and brings together a
community intent on saving one young boy in order to reclaim themselves.
