When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo - Hardcover Used Ali Stroker she kept her head high

she kept her head high

Working three dead-end jobs to make ends meet and knowing college is a pipe dream

I’m a doctor now

and now he wants to ruin the rest of me

a distant reminder of what could have been

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo - Hardcover Used Ali Stroker she kept her head highA mythic love story set in Trinidad and Tobago, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead. You were never the smartest child, but even you should know that when a dead woman offers you a cigarette, the polite thing to do would be to take it. Especially when that dead woman is your mother. The St. Bernard women have lived in Morne Marie, the house on top of a hill