Why did Elizabeth love this book?
Ruth Emmie Lang's novel about two daughters searching for their mother brought me to a surprising place in the natural world. Zadie and Finn's mother was obsessed with birds. This story came at the exact right time. Like many people during the pandemic, I took up casual backyard bird watching.
Lang's main characters end up meeting people with all kinds of connections to the universe, not only birds. It's quite magical.
1 author picked The Wilderwomen as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Five years ago, Nora Wilder disappeared. The older of her two daughters, Zadie, should have seen it coming, because she can literally see things coming. But not even her psychic abilities were able to prevent their mother from vanishing one morning.
Zadie's estranged younger sister, Finn, can't see into the future, but she has an uncannily good memory, so good that she remembers not only her own memories, but the echoes of memories other people have left behind. On the afternoon of her graduation party, Finn is seized by an "echo" more powerful than anything she's experienced before: a woman…