All the Little Bird-Hearts

“A poetic debut which masterfully intertwines themes of familial love, friendship, class, prejudice and trauma with psychological acuity and wit.”   ─ The 2023 Booker Prize Judges I lived for and loved a bird-heart that summer; I only knew it afterwards.   Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It's 1988, before autism was widely diagnosed. Sunday has an old et