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Featherhood : a memoir of two fathers and a magpie / Charlie Gilmour.
"A beautiful, moving, and wildly original memoir of grief, healing, and fatherhood through the story of a young man who adopts a baby magpie"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501198502
- ISBN: 1501198505
- Physical Description: 294 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2021.
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| Subject: | Gilmour, Charlie Samson. Birds > Anecdotes. Magpies > Anecdotes. Human-animal relationships. Fathers and sons > Biography. |
| Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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- 4 of 4 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Polk County.
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- 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Polk County Library-Bolivar | 598 GIL (Text) | 34531000311367 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Featherhood : A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
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Featherhood : A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie
In this "vivid...lovely and inviting" ( The New York Times ) coming-of-age memoir--the "best piece of nature writing since H Is for Hawk " (Neil Gaiman)--a young man saves a baby magpie as his estranged father is dying, only to find that caring for the bird saves him. This is a story of two men who could talk to birds--but were completely incapable of talking to each other. A father who fled from his family in the dead of night, and the jackdaw he raised like a child. A son obsessed with his absence--and the young magpie that fell into his path and refused to fly away. This is a story about the crow family and human family; about repetition across generations and birds that run in the blood; about a terror of repeating the sins of the father and a desire to build a nest of one's own.
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