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Both heartbreaking and sharply funny...Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is brilliant and surprising at every turn.—Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great Believers

A heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk.

From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives will emerge forever altered.

A saga of hope and duty, love and endurance, as well as the claustrophobia of fa

Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey A Novel

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    A Paperback / softback by Kathleen Rooney

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: 11/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9780143135425, 978-0143135425
      ISBN10: 0143135422
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      Book Synopsis
      Both heartbreaking and sharply funny...Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey is brilliant and surprising at every turn.—Rebecca Makkai, Pulitzer finalist for The Great Believers

      A heart-tugging and gorgeously written novel based on the incredible true story of a WWI messenger pigeon and the soldiers whose lives she forever altered, from the author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk.

      From the green countryside of England and the gray canyons of Wall Street come two unlikely heroes: one a pigeon and the other a soldier. Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, the messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, the army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France, where their wills will be tested, their fates will be shaped, and their lives will emerge forever altered.

      A saga of hope and duty, love and endurance, as well as the claustrophobia of fa

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