When We Were Birds: A Novel

When We Were Birds: A NovelA mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytellinga spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's 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 breathtaking."The New York Times Book Review In the

and taking to the streets in peaceful protest were not only joyful pursuits

But no time capsule can change the truth behind all of it

and how she plotted and fought

leave their rural village to work in a bar in Sài Gòn

they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel

It is as crucial as ever

for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place

in order to amplify a multitude of voices and capture Asian America as a collection of contradictions

And that's only the beginning

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this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity