The Lovesongs of Birds

A heartfelt collection of illustrated poetry that is part memoir, part nature-writing, and part philosophical musing, The Lovesongs of Birds is a beautiful and childlike examination of grief and the way it changes us.   Following the loss of her mother, a young woman begins to rediscover joy and play through her encounters with the birds and natural world around her as she travels across California and eventually makes her way to New York. While the story is at times despairing or melanchol