“Though she would have preferred long ago to have died, fled, gotten it all over with, the body--Jesus, how the body!--took its time. It possessed its own wishes and nostalgias. You could not...”
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<b>A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist</b><br><b>A N<i>ew York Times</i></b> <b>Editors' Choice</b><br><b>A <i>Pulishers Weekly </i>Best Book of the Year</b><br><br><i>Birds of America</i> is a stunning collection of twelve stories by Lorrie Moore, one of our finest authors at work today. With her characteristic wit and piercing intelligence she unfolds a series of portraits of the lost and unsettled of America, and with a trademark humor that fuels each story with pathos and understanding.<br>
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