Washington Post Magazine: The Novelist Who Re-created 1970s D.C.

By Editor On Sep 26, 2021 Last updated Sep 26, 2021

For her acclaimed new book, Morowa Yejidé painstakingly built a portrait of a vanished city’s overlooked Black community

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