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EDITORS'' 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

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      Publisher: St Martin's Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2021
      ISBN13: 9781250798510, 978-1250798510
      ISBN10: 1250798515
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      EDITORS'' 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

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