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On the occasion of the awarding of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Rail Books section co-editors Elizabeth Lothian and Joseph Salvatore interviewed 2023 recipient Tyriek White about his debut novel We Are a Haunting. In their conversation, White discusses troubling the boundaries between Western ideas of life and death, writing a story about growing up in a predominantly Black and brown, blue-collar neighborhood, and how Brooklyn to him represents an attitude, a demeanor, and a set of principles.
Tyriek White is the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner for his debut We Are a Haunting. Set in East New York, Brooklyn, the novel follows Colly, a teen growing up in public housing who is left under the guardianship of an absent father when his mother dies from cancer. But since Key and Colly possess the same supernatural ability to see and communicate with the dead, they continue their bond even after her death. The novel alternates between Key's life in New York in the eighties and nineties and Colly’s from the early 2000s to the present day. White elegantly uses Key and Colly’s communion with ghosts to contextualize present-day fights against the gentrification of Black and brown communities and the city's systematic neglect of public housing within a larger history of Black displacement and forced migration in the Western world.
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The list of nominated books cover a wide range of topics that reflect Brooklyn's diverse community, including novels, short stories, poetry, memoir and nonfiction. The winners will be announced in November 2023.
This weekend has a variety of events to choose from including an art market, book signings and even a singer/songwriter competition! There is sure to be
Celebrate Highly Anticipated Debut Novel from Musician & Educator, Tyriek White - We Are A Haunting! Left Bank Books presents highly anticipated debut author, musician, and educator, Tyriek White, who will discuss the novel Kiese Laymon describes as "Astonishing", We Are a Haunting, in-store and on YouTube Live June 5th at 7pm! White will be in conversation with St. Louis poet, journalist, former labor and student organizer Jacqui Germain!