Byrd

"Brilliant writing--lively and heartbreaking at every turn."--Jill McCorkle, author of Life After Life

In this debut novel, 33-year-old Addie Lockwood bears and surrenders for adoption a son, her only child, without telling his father, little imagining how the secret will shape their lives. Through letters and spare, precisely observed vignettes, Byrd explores a birth mother's coming to make and live with the most difficult, intimate, and far-reaching of choices.

Kim Church's stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Painted Bride Quarterly, Flash Fiction Forward, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has received fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony, and Vermont Studio Center . She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski. Byrd is her first novel.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 03/18/2014
ISBN: 9781938604522
Pages: 239
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner
Award: Chautauqua Prize - Finalist

Review Citations: BookPage 03/01/2014