Ayanna Lloyd Banwo When We Were Birds Paperback Book

Winner of the BOCAS Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of for the Authors Club Best First Novel Award 2023Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2023Shortlisted for the McKitterick Prize 2023Shortlisted for the Kitschies Golden Tentacle Award 2023Longlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2023BELIEVE THE HYPE StellaA searing symphony of magic and loss, love and hope Marlon JamesA mesmerising love story, achingly tender Bolu BabalolaDarwin is a downonhisluck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and beautiful and lost. Estranged from his mother and the Rastafari faith she taught him, he is convinced that the father he never met may be waiting for him somewhere amid these bustling streets. Meanwhile in an old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejides mother is dying. And she is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide the power to talk to the dead. The women of Yejides family are human but also not descended from corbeau, the black birds that fly east at sunset, taking with them the souls of the dead. Darwin and Yejide both have something that the other needs. Their destinies are intertwined, and they will find one another in the sprawling, ancient cemetery at the heart of the island, where trouble is brewing...Rich with magic and wisdom, When We Were Birds is an exuberant masterpiece that conjures and mesmerises on every line. Ayanna Lloyd Banwo weaves an unforgettable story of loss and... | Ayanna Lloyd Banwo When We Were Birds Paperback Book