When We Were Birds Audiobook Libro.fm

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A mythic love story set in Trinidad Ayanna Lloyd Banwos radiant debutis 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 breathtakingTheNew 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

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