Summer of the Oystercatchers: Poems

Written by a third-culture kid who grew up in the Middle East and relocated to Texas as a teenager, Summer of the Oystercatchers is a wide-ranging collection of poems that grapple with global interconnection, hilarious and cringe-worthy stories from a cross-cultural childhood, the bruising fingerprints of fundamentalist Christianity and Islam, the many joys of the heart's slow softening, and the many griefs of insurmountable distances. In a voice sometimes personal and sometimes planetary, ...