A review by bookreviewswithkb
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

dark emotional tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

to me, this was a beautiful, atmospheric novel moving through ideas about what happens when we have a limited set of choices of survival, how those choices end up hurting the people closest to us. how the only real choice we have is to stay connected to each other, how those connections carry us, how they help us to fly. how our ancestors live within us, how they guide the direction of our lives, how when we neglect ourself we neglect them too. how love can heal