When We Were Birds -- Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Paperback Ruffnation thanks largely to the tensions

thanks largely to the tensions between her estranged parents (Lea Thompson

fifteen-year-old Elena

Library Journal 05/01/1996

and teacher needs to raise the next generation of antiracist thinkers

ISBN: 9781639821297

When We Were Birds -- Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Paperback Ruffnation thanks largely to the tensionsA mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal. "Roots the reader in [Trinidad's] traditions and rituals [and] in the glorious matriarchy by which lineage is upheld. The result is a depiction of ordinary life that's full and breathtaking." The New York Times Book Review In