In this “vivid…lovely and inviting” (The New York Times) coming-of-age memoir—the “best piece of nature writing since H Is for Hawk” (Neil Gaiman)—a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged father is dying, only to find that caring for the bird saves him. This is a story of two men who could talk to birds—but were completely incapable of talking to each other. A father who fled from his family in the dead of night, and the jackdaw he raised like a child. A son obsessed with his absence—and the young magpie that fell into his path and refused to fly away. This is a story about the crow family and human family; about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one’s own.
Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
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Author: Gilmour, Charlie
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781501198502
Details:
Author: Gilmour, Charlie
Brand: Scribner
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 05-01-2021
Part Number: 9781501198502
Package Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9781501198502
