About When We Were Birds
A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwos radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytellinga spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and loves seismic power to heal.
Roots the reader in [Trinidads] traditions and rituals [and]
in the glorious matriarchy by which lineage is upheld. The result is a depiction of ordinary life thats full and breathtaking.The New York Times Book Review
In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejides mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St Bernard woman in every generation has the power to shepherd the citys souls into the afterlife. But after years of suffering her mothers neglect and bitterness, Yejide is looking for a way out.
