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Featherhood A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie

9781501198519

Featherhood A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie

  • ISBN 13:

    9781501198519

  • ISBN 10:

    1501198513

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 01/11/2022
  • Publisher: Scribner
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Summary

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.

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