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When We Were Birds, March 2022
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When We Were Birds
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

A Novel

Doubleday
March 2022
On Sale: March 1, 2022
Featuring: Yejide; Darwin
304 pages
ISBN: 0385547269
EAN: 9780385547260
Kindle: B096DKS74V
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction | Saga

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.

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