When We Were Birds

Experience the magic of Trinidad in Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s luminous debut, *When We Were Birds*. Yejide is inheriting the legacy of her family’s women: the power to shepherd the city’s souls into the afterlife. Darwin is a Rastafarian grave digger, defying his mother’s wishes to work with the dead. In the vibrant, mystical city of Port Angeles, their two worlds collide. As they are drawn together by destiny and a dangerous mystery at the cemetery, they must find their own path. lyrical, mythic, and deeply romantic, this is a stunning novel about ancestry, love, and the connection between the living and the dead.