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Book SynopsisEDITORS'' CHOICE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize
Miraculous: spry and mordant, with sentences that lull you with their rhythms, then twist suddenly and sting. Lauren Groff, author of Florida
A twisting, strange delight, Parakeet shimmers a soft and generous light on the darkest of a woman''s innermost thoughts. Kristen Iversen, Refinery29
Acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat''s Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino''s Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one.
The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: Wh
