Other Birds

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She soon discovers that many unfinished stories permeate the place, and the people around her are in as much need of healing from wrongs of the past as she is. In college, she majored in literature - because, as she puts it, "I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. I wanted to read this book slowly, absorbing each word carefully, yet I found myself rapidly thumbing through the pages with tears in my eyes.

Other Birds: A Novel: Allen, Sarah Addison: 9781250019868

Some of the sections also read a bit YA to me, and while this worked in a sense for Zoey's character, I also think it detracted from the overall gravitas of the book. There are other members of the tribe (even some ghostly ones) but I don’t want to give any plot points away. She used to talk about how he left her messages all the time and how he was always leaving dimes for her to find. Charlotte, Mac, Zoey and Oliver were all on a trajectory to finding family, acceptance and ultimately love in the oddball Dellawisp community.Both poverty and wealth left their scars on the hearts of many of the younger versions of the characters we meet in this spellbinding story.

Sarah Addison Allen Author — Sarah Addison Allen

There’s the grief of loss, but there is also the magic of healing, and families created from love, sprinkled with a touch of magical realism. I highly recommend it for anyone who needs a mood-booster and doesn’t mind occasional deft touches of magic.On her arrival, the apartment manager, Frasier takes her to her condo and Zoey realizes there is nothing left behind by her mother. It's a lovely book, tragic and hopeful and atmospheric and full of colorful characters that kept me interested in learning more about each of them. Zoe is an energetic ball of charm who’s determined to bring these virtual strangers together, if she can get her often petulant invisible bird, Pigeon, to stop interfering. Problem is that she was never able, amidst all the clutter, to locate the diaries that held the tale she needed told. I really enjoyed this book, full of quirky characters who live on the margins of life for different reasons, and who are all living (or have lived) at the small 5-unit Dellawisp apartment building.