Megan Mayhew - Birds Of A Lesser Paradise Stories - 2012 [EN]

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"Birds of a Lesser Paradise by Megan Mayhew" is a Unknown title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (3.8 MB). Written by Megan Mayhew. The book spans approximately 215 pages with 68,928 words. An "astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov" (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants ), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world. Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world and wildlife, Megan Mayhew Bergman's powerful and heartwarming collection captures the surprising moments when the pull of our biology becomes evident, when love or fear collides with good sense, or when our attachment to an animal o...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreFiction, Literature, Short Stories

QualityEPUB

Size3.8 MB

Pages215

ArchivedAug 29, 2026

Synopsis

I lost my mother last spring and am driving nine hours south on I-95 with a seven-year-old so that I might hear her voice again. Baby, I say, don’t do that unless you have Windex in your backpack. You should dress more like Gwen Stefani, he says. I haven’t told Ike that we’re driving to a small roadside zoo outside of Myrtle Beach so that I can hear my mother’s voice call from the beak of a thirty-six-year-old African gray parrot, a bird I hated, a bird that could beep like a microwave, ring lik