![]() ![]() The loss of his mother has traumatized him, and time has failed to ease the pain: "I had never stopped crying," he observes. ![]() White's book, which switches perspective between Colly and Key and goes back and forth in time, is a gorgeous novel about loss, survival and community.Ĭolly is a high school student growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York. Mourning is inextricable from confusion we blame the dead, we blame ourselves, we blame the world for being what it is, a place where endings are the only constant. Key, who regularly appears to her son, may have a point. "And I know it sounds like I blame you but I don't." "You were just gone one morning," he says. In the prologue to Tyriek White's debut novel, We Are a Haunting, Colly speaks to his mother, Key, who died unexpectedly, leaving him in a constant state of grief and rootlessness. ![]()
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