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      The Kindness of Birds

      by Merlinda Bobis
      Published
      May 2021
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
      Pages
      256
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      About This Book

      Amidst COVID-19, planetary and personal upheavals, fourteen stories pay homage to kindness. From Australia to the Philippines and other corners of the world, across cultures and species, we meet, connect, console. Always there are birds that inspire us to remember kindness and remember kindly. We are consoled, because there is unkindness too, that snag in the breath, that shadow of a wing. An oriole sings to a dying father. A bleeding heart dove saves the day. A quarrel over cockatoos attends the laying of the dead. A crow wakes a woman's resolve. Kindness cannot self-isolate. It moves both ways and all ways, like breath.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

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      First Edition May 2021 Spinifex Press ISBN13 9781925950304 ISBN10 1925950301
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      May 2021 Spinifex Press ISBN13 9781925950311 ISBN10 192595031X
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      May 2021 Spinifex Press ISBN10 B093LQP5TD
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