Name: Parakeet, Paperback/Marie-Helene Bertino
Brand: Picador USA
Price: 144.99 RON
Availability: InStock

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A Best Book of 2020 at Lit Hub, Electric Literature , and Refinery29 A Best Book of Summer at Vulture , Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, Alma , Subway Book Review , and Lit Hub A Best Book of the Month at Entertainment Weekly , Hello Giggles , and PopSugar 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: 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. A novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becomin