Morowa Yejidé talks to Johnny about her hometown of Washington, DC, and her rampantly praised new novel, Creatures of Passage.

Morowa Yejidé’s latest novel, Creatures of Passage, is available here.

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. She lives in the DC area with her husband and three sons. Creatures of Passage is her second novel.