And believe it or not, kindness reaps kindness. What emotion we experienced at the hands of that one kind soul. We always remember how someone made us feel. One act of kindness can have a ripple effect. We all go through those moments, but the simple act of kindness can make all the difference to any situation. But it is not just what happens but also how someone made us feel shapes our future self. The book touches sensitive topics of losing loved ones, abuse and neglect. Mostly to be acknowledged of their mere existence.
Along with her many stories are waiting to be told and heard. The Dellawisps welcome Zoey and her pigeon with open wings and untold stories. Zoey has landed on Mallow island with her belongings in search of something she herself does not know yet. Everything will reveal itself when the time is right. Each one of us has our own, so will move at its individual pace, not fast neither slow. Most of our life, we are learning to accept and hoping that one day it will all make sense. It is a story about love weaved with imagination. Trees that are especially maintained with special care for the beautiful turquoise birds. In short, this book is comfort food of the sweetest kind.Other Birds transports you to this calm and serene life of community living surrounded by trees. As she has done with all her previous books, she infuses a rawness and humanity into this delicate genre of magical realism that reminds me why storytelling is true magic. there is something hidden among the margins of white paper and black ink-true sorcery that only Sarah Addison Allen can master. This book is more than the sum of its parts. If I could rent a condo in the Dellawisp for the summer I’m certain I’d never leave. And soon enough, the other residents of the Dellawisp become a found-family that Zoey never expected.
The other residents who live in the Dellawisp are a curious mélange of outcasts, ghosts, and birds, but on the first night, when one of her neighbors is found dead, Zoey’s quiet summer becomes something quite extraordinary. A cobblestone, horseshoe-shaped building called the Dellawisp-named after a variety of local birds-becomes Zoey’s unlikely home. The story begins when eighteen-year-old Zoey arrives at her deceased mother’s home on the island of Mallow, which is known for its marshmallow confections. This book casts an unmistakable spell on its readers, and Allen writes with prose that feels like pure alchemy, as if each sentence were a summoning of autumn air and long-forgotten magic. Other Birds is the story we all need right now, lyrical and heartbreaking and layered with hope. I wanted to read this book slowly, absorbing each word carefully, yet I found myself rapidly thumbing through the pages with tears in my eyes. When you find an author you love, and they publish a new book after many years away, cracking open the first page is like sinking into the arms of an old friend.
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