The Gravity Of Birds: A Novel

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Synopsis

A debut novel already destined to be a book club favorite. “With its deft interweaving of psychological complexity and riveting narrative momentum, with its gorgeous prose and poetic justice, The Gravity of Birds is about sibling rivalry, tragedies, and resurrections. And it’s irresistibly exquisite” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Forty-four years after the brilliant young painter, Thomas Bayber, first meets Alice and Natalie Kessler, Bayber unveils a never-before-seen work, Kessler Sisters—a provocative painting depicting the young Thomas, Alice, and Natalie. Bayber asks Dennis Finch, an art history professor, and Stephen Jameson, an eccentric young art authenticator, to sell the painting. But their task becomes more complicated when the artist requires that they first locate Alice and Natalie, who seem to have disappeared.

Told in alternating chapters that weave revelations about the sisters’ past with clues Finch and Jameson discover in the present, this story sets three characters on a collision course with their histories, showing how families tear themselves apart and then try to bind themselves together again, not always creating the same fabric. The Gravity of Birds “combines the drama of warring sisters, the mystery of a missing painting, and the sorrow of lost love into a haunting elegy that will…leave you breathless” (Tiffany Baker, author of The Little Giant of Aberdeen County).

Chapters

  • GravityOfBirds 01 Epigraph

    Duration: 01min
  • GravityOfBirds 02 Open

    Duration: 34s
  • GravityOfBirds 03 Ch1a

    Duration: 25min
  • GravityOfBirds 04 Ch1b

    Duration: 23min
  • GravityOfBirds 05 Ch2a

    Duration: 15min
  • GravityOfBirds 06 Ch2b

    Duration: 23min
  • GravityOfBirds 07 Ch3a

    Duration: 23min
  • GravityOfBirds 08 Ch3b

    Duration: 15min
  • GravityOfBirds 09 Ch4

    Duration: 29min
  • GravityOfBirds 10 Ch5a

    Duration: 26min
  • GravityOfBirds 11 Ch5b

    Duration: 16min
  • GravityOfBirds 12 Ch6a

    Duration: 20min
  • GravityOfBirds 13 Ch6b

    Duration: 28min
  • GravityOfBirds 14 Ch6c

    Duration: 26min
  • GravityOfBirds 15 Ch7a

    Duration: 11min
  • GravityOfBirds 16 Ch7b

    Duration: 21min
  • GravityOfBirds 17 Ch8a

    Duration: 14min
  • GravityOfBirds 18 Ch8b

    Duration: 28min
  • GravityOfBirds 19 Ch9a

    Duration: 26min
  • GravityOfBirds 20 Ch9b

    Duration: 18min
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