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Soraya Palmer published her debut novel, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts, a week before her former professor, Matthew Vollmer, published his sixth book, and first book-length essay: All of Us Together in the End. Both books, as the above title asserts, are about ghosts. To be more specific, they are also about mothers. Even more specifically: mothers who die before their time. And what happens next to everyone they love. ....
Ingrid Rojas Contreras (author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds) reviews The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts for The New York Times. She writes, “In Soraya Palmer’s debut novel, two sisters find solace and salvation through enduring Black diasporic tales.” [Also see our previous post New Books: The Human Origins… ....
Soraya Palmer, who identifies as Trinidadian/Jamaican-American, published The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts in March 2023 (Catapult Books). [Excuse our delay in giving it the attention it deserves! We made a brief mention in our previous post, Books-about-hauntings-by-black-women-writers.] Daphne Palasi Andreades (author of Brown Girls) describes it: “Playful and deft, Palmer’s debut… ....