Book description
How do you find someone who wants to be lost?
Sisters Alice and Natalie were once close, but adolescence has wrenched them apart. Alice loves books and birds in equal measure whilst Natalie, the beautiful one, is sexy and manipulative, effortlessly captivating men.
On their lakeside family holiday, Alice falls…
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1 author picked The Gravity of Birds as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is writing to make you pause and savor what has been said.
Guzeman puts the frailty of the human condition front and center. Her characters are bereaved, they have migraines, they suffer from car sickness and are afraid of flying. One has crippling arthritis. One has a stroke. Another bears a war wound. I cannot think of any other book where illness and disability is something that every main character experiences, not just the token individual. Yet this book is not morbid. It’s not preachy, either. In some parts it’s extremely funny.
Misconception, misunderstanding and misuse are the foundation…
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