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By Chris White

H Is for Hawk meets Grief Is the item with Feathers during this evocative debut novel a couple of pill-popping anesthesiologist and avid birder who embarks on a quest to discover one of many world’s rarest species, permitting not anything to get in his way—until he’s compelled to confront his obsessions and what they’ve fee him.

Anesthesiologist Adrian Mandrick is stuffed with contradictory impulses. He desires to be an excellent husband to his spouse and a superb father to his young ones; he desires to forgive his once-beloved mom for the crime she dedicated and the lengthy misplaced father who accused her. but if he gets a decision from his mom after years of silence, he is taking solace within the very discomfort medicine he prescribes, spiraling downward into addiction.

His sole resource of actual convenience is his “life list”—the all-encompassing list of the 863 poultry species he’s noticed and pointed out. His is the 3rd longest checklist in all of North the USA. but if Henry Lassiter, the mythical birder who held the region’s moment longest record, dies unexpectedly, Adrian seizes the chance to make his method to the very best. A determined look for the tremendous infrequent Ivory-billed Woodpecker finally leaves him stranded within the thick swamplands of Florida’s panhandle, the place he's pressured to confront his earlier and current mess ups, to mirror on what his obsessions and addictions have price him, and to query what's really vital in his life.

Combining wry humor and secret with environmental event, The existence record of Adrian Mandrick is a fast moving, attractive tale that heralds the arriving of a brand new literary talent.

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