The Language of Birds: A Novel

Gracie is a serious, sensitive, aspiring writer; Jannie, her autistic younger sister, is passionate about birds. As children, they were taken by their mother on a senseless trip through Europe that ended in their mother's suicide. Now, in Berkeley, their father works tirelessly to find ways to engage Jannie, while Gracie-unwilling to reveal the truth about her mother's suicide or her sister's autism to anyone outside her family-weaves a web of lies around herself that isolate her even as Ja...