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When We Were Birds

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 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. Fantastique Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Littérature mondiale Magique Inspirant Sincère
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A beautiful tale of death, ancestry, motherhood, grief, destiny, love, ritual and duty. You will be transported to this real world and the other worlds contained within it. This was a magical journey that never lets the reader go This is also the MOST authentic sounding Trini audiobook I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. Amazing narration that brought not only the other-wordly characters but the sights and sounds of the island to life. The colloquial banter is accurate and melodious.

A Beautiful Story and an Ode to Trinidad

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I loved this story and the narration was 10 outta 10. I do wish that one character had as much brought to their character development as the other. I found myself really invested in one more than the other. Still, it doesn’t take away from how well written this story is and how the narration makes it perfect.

Amazing story and narration

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