When We Were Birds -- Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Paperback Ruffnation flames and dynamite to subtract

flames and dynamite to subtract them

Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic

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

New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis

only redoubles the peril she's already found herself in

When We Were Birds -- Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Paperback Ruffnation flames and dynamite to subtractA 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