The Bird Skinner

Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winner Alice Greenway’s new novel is a story of lost love, wartime, and rebirth, inspired by the career of her grandfather—noted ornithologist Jim Greenway—set on islands in Maine and the Solomons.

Jim Kennoway was once an esteemed member of the ornithology department at the Museum of Natural History in New York, collecting and skinning birds as specimens. Slowing down from a hard-lived life and a recent leg amputation, Jim retreats to an island in Maine: to drin...