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When We Were Birds (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385547260)
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xA 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.
Author: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
ISBN-10: 0385547269
ISBN-13: 9780385547260
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.40d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2021 pg. 3
Library Journal 02/01/2022 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2022
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 22
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.
Author: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
ISBN-10: 0385547269
ISBN-13: 9780385547260
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.40d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2021 pg. 3
Library Journal 02/01/2022 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 01/31/2022
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2022
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 22
By Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
xAYANNA LLOYD BANWO is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Moko Magazine, Small Axe, POUi, Pree, Callaloo, and Anomaly. She is a graduate of the M.A. in Creative Writing program from the University of East Anglia and is now a postgraduate researcher in Creative-Critical Writing at UEA. When We Were Birds is her first novel.
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