The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

Written by:
Soraya Palmer
Narrated by:
Jaimi Gray

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
1
Narrator
1
Release Date
March 2023
Duration
9 hours 11 minutes
Summary
Sisters Zora and Sasha Porter are drifting apart. Bearing witness to their father’s violence and their mother’s worsening illness, an unsettled Zora escapes into her journal, dreaming of being a writer, while Sasha discovers sex and chest binding, spending more time with her new girlfriend than at home. But the sisters, like their parents, must come together to answer to something more ancient and powerful than they know—and reckon with a family secret buried in the past. A tale told from the perspective of a mischievous narrator, featuring the Rolling Calf who haunts butchers, Mama Dglo who lives in the ocean, a vain tiger, and an outsmarted snake, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts is set in a world as alive and unpredictable as Helen Oyeyemi’s. Telling of the love between sisters who don’t always see eye to eye, this extraordinary debut novel is a celebration of the power of stories, asking What happens to us when our stories are erased? Do we disappear? Or do we come back haunting?
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Nadia R.

The story was fantastic, which kept me interested.However the narrator could not do the Caribbean accents well and pronounced certain words in Caribbean folklore and everyday life incorrectly.

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