Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

The introduction of a singularly stunning new voice in fiction, Ayanna Gillian Lloyd Banwo's When we Were Birds is a mythic love story set in contemporary Trinidad & Tobago about two young outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead-- The St. Bernard women have lived in Morne Marie, the house on top of a hill outside Port Angeles, for generations. One woman in each generation is responsible for the passage of the city's souls into...