Birds of Paradise: A Novel
At thirteen, Felice Muir ran away from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had done--leaving a hole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father, and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging for food, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, Felice is now turning eighteen, and she and the family she left behind must reckon with the consequences of her actions--and make life-affirming choices about what matters to them most, now and in the future.
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This is my second Abu-Jaber novel and they were both very well written and completely different from one another. In Birds of Paradise, there is a sense of longing in each of the characters. Longing for connections, for meaning that defines the book. The story reveals itself slowly and while a few lines are left hanging (Solange, Javier) the main characters do find a sort of peace in their lives eventually. Nothing in the book was as I had expe...read more
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