There is a little bit of mystery involved as well. You will also find real people, multiple storylines that somehow all intertwine together (yes, even those from the afterlife) and so much heart. In this book you will ghosts, invisible birds, visits from the afterlife and ghosts. This is a Sarah Addison Allen book after all, and Other Birds is magical realism at its finest. Allen moves you through the different lives that fill this book and tells their stories with a deft and knowing hand. Though this book deals with death, grief, loss and every emotion that those entail, the book never feels heavy. I supposed it’s only natural then that grief is a theme that runs throughout Other Birds.Įach of the characters is grieving in a different way, some for the family they never had, others for the family that they’ve lost. After her mother passed away, things became quiet and though I searched for a new novel by Allen, her pen remained still. Her last book, First Frost, was published in 2015. I’ve been waiting so long for a novel from Sarah Addison Allen. I tried to make this one last, I truly did. However, jut because they remain silent doesn’t mean the ghosts have nothing to say…ĭon’t you love that moment when you finish that perfect book, and you sit there knowing that it will be a long time until you read something just as good? That’s the feeling that I had with Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen. They know the most of all for they see everything, but like all ghosts they remain silent. Unseen to her are the ghosts that inhabit the Dellawisp. Ultimately, Zoey will learn a bit of her own story and how she would like it to be told. In trying to make sense of the death and why they passed on, she will get to know her neighbours and a little bit of each of their stories. When Zoey arrives at the Dellawisp with her invisible bird Pigeon, someone at building dies. Frasier, an enigmatic gentleman who seems to know more than he says and Lucy a woman who sees much but hides more. Mack, a chef whose food brings joy to many, but not to him. There’s Charlotte, a henna artist who seems to be running from something. There are four other condos and the inhabitants are just as unique as the turquoise birds that flutter outside the building from which The Dellawisp takes its name. With time to spare before she starts college, she has come to The Dellawisp to form some kind of connection with her mother, though she’s gone from this world. She arrives on Mallow Island, South Carolina to claim her deceased mother’s condo at a building called The Dellawisp. The only problem is, she isn’t sure what she is running towards. They’re the white sheets we drape over our ghosts so we can see them.
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