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Featherhood

A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie

by Charlie Gilmour
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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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    January 5, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781501198526

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      • ISBN: 9781501198526
      • File size: 3325 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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