Parakeet / Marie-Helene Bertino.
By: Bertino, Marie-Helene [author.].
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First edition.Description: 224 p: 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374229450; 0374229457.Subject(s): Grandmothers -- Fiction | Grandparent and child -- Fiction | Parrots -- Fiction | Immortalism -- Fiction | Self-realization in women -- Fiction | Weddings -- Planning -- Fiction | Dysfunctional families -- FictionGenre/Form: Paranormal fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Magic realist fiction. | Print books.Summary: 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: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, The Bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried. Parakeet asks and begins to answer the essential questions: How do our memories make, cage, and free us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest, truest selves? Who are we responsible for, what do we owe them, and how do we allow them to change? --Adapted from dust jacket.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| New Arrival | PS3602.E7683 P37 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000016716 |
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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: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, The Bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried. Parakeet asks and begins to answer the essential questions: How do our memories make, cage, and free us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest, truest selves? Who are we responsible for, what do we owe them, and how do we allow them to change? --Adapted from dust jacket.