Just Over Here Growing A Soul:

The Works of Mr. Joe

By: JOSEPH SANTIAGO

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In Over Here Growing a Soul: The Works of Mr. Joe, Joseph Santiago gathers a body of writing that is intimate, searching, and vividly alive to the textures of ordinary life. These pieces move through memory, place, longing, mortality, imagination, desire, and becoming, always returning to the deeper question of how a person makes meaning that can endure beyond the moment. Thoughtful, strange, playful, and emotionally resonant, this collection invites readers into a world where even the smallest experience can open into philosophy, tenderness, wonder, and hard-won insight.

Across essays, reflections, poems, and stories, Santiago lingers with the feelings, questions, and contradictions that shape a life from the inside. He writes toward what is unfinished, what is changing, what is remembered, and what still wants to be understood. The result is a book that feels both personal and expansive, grounded in lived experience while reaching toward larger questions of identity, connection, creativity, and what it means to keep growing through time.