"She hates them because they wake her up every morning. She hates them because her father, an ornithologist, is obsessed with them. She hates them because they took her mother away. And because she dreams of them and they talk to her. And because when they do, she understands them. But only the birds will be able to sew the wounds that have broken her family, and give back her mother, lost in the marshes of Louisiana, which hide a world full of magic and legend"--Provided by publisher.
