When We Were Birds Humorous Stories A tale far richer than

A tale far richer than any novelist could invent

the child daydreams about each season of the year and the changes that come with them

and teachers

As Y2K looms

and activist Essex Hemphill has been lovingly sustained through xeroxed copies of his few published works

When We Were Birds Humorous Stories A tale far richer thanA 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