Birdie

Love is the central force in Birdie, a collection of 16 flash fictions that sing with the voices of women loving, losing, learning. The characters here find strength, despite the sorrows of death & deceit: a ghost-child returns to Massachusetts to comfort her grieving mother; a Spanish orange tycoon’s daughter regrets her mother’s terrible choices.

Dragostea este forta centrala in Birdie, o colectie de 16 fictiuni flash care canta cu vocile femeilor care iubesc, pierd, invata. Personajele de aici isi gasesc putere, in ciuda durerilor mortii si inselaciunii: un copil-fantoma se intoarce in Massachusetts pentru a-si mangaia mama indurerata; fiica unui magnat portocaliu spaniol regreta alegerile groaznice ale mamei sale.