Publisher's Synopsis
In a world where your life argues for you, carving out the possibilities for the world to come, three miserable people meet an angel in a coffee shop...
Creating a manifestation of one's soul is the ultimate goal of many humans and demons in the world of Sehhinah. The only problem is, manifesting your soul means other people can see it. Celyet left her home among the demons after her manifestation was desecrated. Eshva has been hiding their manifestation for years ever since it nearly killed their friend. And Yairen doesn't believe she can manifest at all, convinced that her soul itself is worthless, as worthless as she is at being a trader in her family's tradition. In the city of Akal-ne, high on the icy steppe, these three people's lives collide at a coffee shop-a shop owned by none other than the endlessly talkative, opinionated angel Jibril. It might just be that these people are perfectly qualified to help each other, if they can bring themselves to let each other actually understand the souls they have irrevocably put into the world. And it might just be that Jibril has advice they need to hear. Ideas unheard of among angels or humans. Ideas about the full extent of what a soul can be. Ideas even God Themself isn't aware of. The Birds that Fly at Dusk is the second book in Ivana Skye's Sehhinah trilogy, an atmospheric, semi-utopian reimagining of Abrahamic mythology where everyone's personal life is of cosmic importance.
