Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

Narrated by: Sydney Hegele

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the lake.

Every summer the peaches ripen in Port Peter, and the tourists arrive to gorge themselves on fruit and sun. They don't see the bird women, who cavort on the cliffs and live in a meadow beneath the lake. But when summer ends and the visitors go back home, every pregnant Port Peter girl knows what she needs to do: deliver her child to the Birds in a laundry basket on those same lakeside cliffs. But the Birds don't want Georgia Jackson.

Twenty years on, the peaches are ripening again, the tourists have returned, and Georgia is looking for trouble with any ill-tempered man she can find. When that man turns out to be Arlo Bloom-her mother's ex and the new priest in town-she finds herself drawn into a complicated matrix of friendship, grief, faith, sex, and love with Arlo, his wife, Felicity, and their son, Isaiah. Vivid, uncanny, and as likely cursed as touched by grace, Bird Suit is a brutal, generous story as sticky and lush as a Port Peter peach.

©2024 Sydney Hegele (P)2024 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

The narration won't impress, but the story is amazing

I started this book thinking I was going to struggle through the narration, it feels dry. And then the author's narration becomes the story, they are indistinguishable from each other. The narration needs to be cut and dry because this story will cut in places we keep hidden from ourselves. The narration does not need emotion, because the story will pull feelings from you want to keep away from others and yourself. This book will make you feral.