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We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White

We Are a Haunting

A Novel

by Tyriek White
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  • Apr 25, 2023, 272 pages
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  • Apr 2024, 272 pages
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"Here," you say, easing me into the current. A cool wind from the ocean had pelted sand into my hair. It stung my eyes, made me shiver down to my toes. there was a hole in the night sky, where it all goes in the end, some giant we've mistaken for sun or light. I have this strange feeling of culmination, what could be made of all those histories, an infinite process—hilltop city of seven waters. "I'll tell you everything."

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Excerpted from We Are a Haunting by Tyriek Rashawn White. Copyright © 2023 by Tyriek Rashawn White. Excerpted by permission of Astra House. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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