The Wilderwomen

By Ruth Emmie Lang,

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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…

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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.

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