Of friendships to be made, rifts to be mended, past wrongs to be released, and maybe even soul mates to be discovered. When she dies (at the very beginning of the book - no spoilers) around the same time Zoey moves into the complex, it opens up possibilities. Her neighbors, who have lived in each others’ vicinity for years, have taken note of one another, but never made any active overtures to try to be friends, likely because of the hoarding crone who lives amongst them and complains about everything they do and every noise they make. While all of her books explore these themes, OTHER BIRDS feels especially poignant, since the young main protagonist, Zoey, has had a very complicated family life (as have all of the characters, in one way or another), and so she sets herself to creating found family in the new home she finds herself in, though it happens naturally, and everyone around her kind of opens their petals to her warm, friendly sunshine. I love how she somehow conceives of the perfect magical elements to tie all the pieces of her stories together, providing the perfect dollop of enchantment to tales that speak to more realistic kinds of magic, like love, home, family, friendship, community and belonging. I just love her beautiful books, her gentle magic, her gorgeous writing.
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