When We Were Birds (Hardcover Book)

When We Were Birds (Hardcover Book)

USD $27.00 Ayanna Lloyd Banwo [Writer] Published by-Knopf Publishing

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About the When We Were Birds (Hardcover Book)

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal.

"Roots the reader in [Trinidad’s] traditions and rituals [and] ... in the glorious matriarchy by which lineage is upheld. The result is a depiction of ordinary life that’s full and breathtaking."—The New York Times Book Review

In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s 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 city’s souls into the afterlife. But after years of suffering her mother’s neglect and bitterness, Yejide is looking for a way out.
 
Raised in the countryside by a devout Rastafarian mother, Darwin has always abided by the religious commandment not to interact with death. He has never been to a funeral, much less seen a dead body. But when the only job he can find is grave digging, he must betray the life his mother built for him in order to provide for them both. Newly shorn of his dreadlocks and his past, and determined to prove himself, Darwin finds himself adrift in a city electric with possibility and danger.
 
Yejide and Darwin will meet inside the gates of Fidelis, an ancient and sprawling cemetery, where the dead lie uneasy in their graves and a reckoning with fate beckons them both.

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The publisher of "When We Were Birds (Hardcover Book)" is Knopf Publishing.

The genres of "When We Were Birds (Hardcover Book)" are Fiction - Literary, Fiction - Magical Realism, and Fiction - World Literature - Caribbean & West Indies.

"When We Were Birds (Hardcover Book)" falls under the category of Hardcover Books.

The writer of "When We Were Birds (Hardcover Book)" is Ayanna Lloyd Banwo.