Why read Sing, Wild Bird, Sing?

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A courageous woman journeys from nineteenth-century Ireland to the American West in a powerful novel about the indomitable will to survive-and to flourish-against nearly impossible odds.

It's 1849 on the west coast of Ireland. Resilient Honora O'Donoghue is accustomed to fending for herself and to reading the language of the…

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Anne Griffin

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Spanning two continents, the tragedies of the Irish Famine and the theft of Native American lands, this novel achieves a huge amount.

In 1849, Honora O’Donoghue survives the horror of her small town’s enforced starvation, the loss of her child, and the disappearance of her husband. She escapes to America, and to worlds darker than she ever could have imagined. Then she meets Joseph, or Blue Horse of the Cayuse people, and for the first time she feels she can at last take flight.

The comparison of two dispossessed communities is beautifully dealt with here. The loss, the injustice,…

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