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When we were birds : a novel

Title

When we were birds : a novel / Ayanna Lloyd Banwo.

Author

Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd

Publication

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc D 22-762	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFD 22-1574	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Description

292 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"The introduction of a singularly stunning new voice in fiction, Ayanna Gillian Lloyd's The Gatekeepers 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 the afterlife. But when Petronella dies, Yejide is unprepared to fulfill her destiny. Darwin has always abided by the religious commandment not to interact with death, but when his mother can no longer work, the only job he can find is grave digging. Yejide and Darwin meet inside the gates of Fidelis, Port Angeles's largest and oldest cemetery, where the dead lie uneasy in their graves. -- adapted from jacket

Subject

Genre/Form

Call Number

Sc D 22-762

ISBN

LCCN

2021005691

OCLC

1242019804

Author

Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd, author.

Title

When we were birds : a novel / Ayanna Lloyd Banwo.

Publisher

New York : Doubleday, 2022.

Copyright Date

Edition

First United States edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-762

JFD 22-1574