Featherhood

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—