“Every once in a while, a novel is so compelling that it changes your sense of a place…Creatures of passage is that book.” - washington post
“Creatures of Passage resists comparison. It’s reminiscent of “Beloved” as well as the “Odyssey”…clashing elements become, in this cast, a cohesive whole, telling us that this, too, is America.” - New York Times
“Creatures of Passage shines a light on a section of the city mostly ignored by fiction writerS.” - 18 Books That Capture the Spirit and Essence of Living in D.C., Washington Post
Features
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Features 〰️
How Morowa Yejidé re-created 1970s D.C. for her acclaimed new book - Washington Post Magazine (Photo credit: Marvin Joseph)
Novelist Morowa Yejidé Talks About Breakout Book ‘Creatures of Passage’ The DC native is earning accolades for her tale of 1970s Washington. - Washingtonian
This D.C. Native Has Written A Haunted Novel About The District’s History - DCist
There’s a Kind of Magic in Blooming Late - Bloom Magazine
In Conversation - Writer’s Center
2022 women’s fiction prize longlist
great britain’s iNewspaper: The Washington DC that few tourists see, as told by novelist and native Morowa Yejidé
UK: Addicted to Media 5-Star Review. LYRICAL YET BRUTAL: MOROWA YEJIDÉ'S 'CREATURES OF PASSAGE
MOROWA YEJIDÉ, a native of Washington, DC, is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Time of the Locust, which was a 2012 finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize, long-listed for the 2015 PEN/Bingham Prize, and a 2015 NAACP Image Award nominee. Her most recent novel, Creatures of Passage, was shortlisted for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and a 2021 Notable Book selection by NPR and the Washington Post. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons. PRONUNCIATION: Mo-RO-wa YAY-je-DAY.
Coming Soon
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PREVIOUS EVENTS
Politics & Prose, Carson Faust — If the Dead Belong Here - with Morowa Yejidé, November 8, 2025
Baltimore Book Festival, September 13, 2025
DC Public Library system picks Creatures of Passage as State book @ the National Book Festival, August 2023
