{"product_id":"the-wild-birds-9781644282007","title":"The Wild Birds","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the \u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e INDIES 2018 Award for Best Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper's assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world unkind to young women. In 1941, nomad Victor scours the Sierras searching for refuge from a home to which he never belonged. And in the present day, precocious fifteen year-old Lily struggles, despite her willfulness, to find a place for herself amongst the small town attitudes of Burning Hills, Oregon. Living alone with her hardscrabble mother Alice compounds the problem--though their unique relationship to the natural world ties them together, Alice keeps an awful secret from her daughter, one that threatens to ignite the tension growing between them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmily Strelow's mesmerizing debut stitches together a sprawling saga of the feral Northwest across farmlands and deserts and generations: an American mosaic alive with birdsong and gunsmoke, held together by a silver box of eggshells--a long-ago gift from a mother to her daughter. Written with grace, grit, and an acute knowledge of how the past insists upon itself, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Birds\u003c\/i\u003e is a radiant and human story about the shelters we find and make along our crooked paths home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rare Bird Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/03\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644282007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Emily Strelow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36664490655900,"sku":"9781644282007","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a62d4f97-3a4d-4866-bbca-d8f24cd7b283.jpg?v=1603906819","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-wild-birds-9781644282007","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}