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01581aam a2200229 4500 001 74AB9BA8EC7011ECA6D3045741ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220615010020 020 $a 9781647423575 020 $a 1647423570 9781647423575 040 $d SILO 100 $a Barrows, Anita 245 $a The Language of Birds $c Anita Barrows 264 1 $a Berkeley, CA $b SHE WRITES PRESS $c 2022 300 $a 312 pages 520 $a Gracie is a serious, sensitive, aspiring writer; Jannie, her autistic younger sister, is passionate about birds. As children, they were taken by their mother on a senseless trip through Europe that ended in their mothers suicide. Now, in Berkeley, their father works tirelessly to find ways to engage Jannie, while Gracieunwilling to reveal the truth about her mothers suicide or her sisters autism to anyone outside her familyweaves a web of lies around herself that isolate her even as Jannie, in part through her relationships with and understanding of birds, begins to speak, interact, and emerge. 520 $a Narrated by Gracie and alternating back and forth between 2002, when the sisters are still children/adolescents, and 2017, when they are in their early adulthood, The Language of Birds is a story of coming to understand what seems unfamiliar and indecipherable, and of finding authentic ways to be with the people you love. 655 $a General Fiction 008 s2022 941 $a 1 952 $l KEPC896 $d 20220615010720.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=74AB9BA8EC7011ECA6D3045741ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search