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Set in the remote mountains of northern USA, BROKEN WING is an allegorical tale about a rusty blackbird with a broken wing who can''t fly and, therefore, is trapped in the inhospitable north country for the winter and a man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness and passionate emotional intensity. BROKEN WING is the story of how these two different lives come together. A story of loneliness, survival, tenacity and will, BROKEN WING is, also, about music and race and what it is like to be a minority in a strange place. A story of the natural world and the wonder of birds'' lives and of one man''s deep connection to them, BROKEN WING becomes a song of praise for the cycle of the seasons and a meditation on the reality of dreams and the dreamlike quality of reality. It is, also, the story of one individual black man told from outside the usual stereotypes about African-American males, which is a perspective seldom seen in American literature. Told with simple, dignified prose, BROKEN WING takes on the timeless, mythic aura of a folktale.

Broken Wing

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      Publisher Beyond Words Publishing
      Published 11 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9781582706870
      978-1582706870
      ISBN-10 1582706875

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Set in the remote mountains of northern USA, BROKEN WING is an allegorical tale about a rusty blackbird with a broken wing who can''t fly and, therefore, is trapped in the inhospitable north country for the winter and a man, known only as The Man Who Lives Alone in the Mountains, who lives a solitary life of nurturing attentiveness, simple kindness and passionate emotional intensity. BROKEN WING is the story of how these two different lives come together. A story of loneliness, survival, tenacity and will, BROKEN WING is, also, about music and race and what it is like to be a minority in a strange place. A story of the natural world and the wonder of birds'' lives and of one man''s deep connection to them, BROKEN WING becomes a song of praise for the cycle of the seasons and a meditation on the reality of dreams and the dreamlike quality of reality. It is, also, the story of one individual black man told from outside the usual stereotypes about African-American males, which is a perspective seldom seen in American literature. Told with simple, dignified prose, BROKEN WING takes on the timeless, mythic aura of a folktale.

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