Migratory Birds

A thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and home.--Publishers Weekly

In her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy of the spaces we inhabit. Blending criticism, reportage, and a travel writing all her own, Oliver presents a brilliant collection of essays that asks us what it means to leave the familiar behind and make the unfamiliar our own.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Transit Books
Published: 06/22/2021
ISBN: 9781945492525
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.93h x 4.96w x 0.47d