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The afterlife of birds : a novel / Elizabeth Philips.

by Philips, Elizabeth.

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Freehand Books, c2015.

Collectors and collecting -- Fiction.

Loneliness -- Fiction.

9781554812653 (trade pbk.)

313 p. ; 22 cm.

Henry Jett's life is slowly going nowhere. His girlfriend recently left, and his job in a local garage is uninspiring, considering that he doesn't particularly like cars. Henry finds solace in his eccentric passion, rebuilding the skeletons of birds and animals. Meanwhile Henry's brother, Dan, is disappearing into an obsession of his own. Without Dan to rely on, Henry begins to engage in new ways with the people around him in his Prairie city: the 80-year-old Russian émigré who delights in telling stories; the very pregnant former employee of his mother's; the lawyer who may or may not be his brother's ex-girlfriend. Gradually they demand that Henry become a participant in his own story, and Henry must forge his own way of living in the world.

Psychological fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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