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55/100Critics
67/100Scholars
Author:
Mariana Oliver, Julia Sanches
Publisher:
Transit Books
Date:
June 22, 2021
Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy of the spaces we inhabit.
What The Reviewers Say
Migratory Birds revels in motion. Through eleven essays, Oliver roams freely, from Turkey’s largest underground city ('Cappadocia') to Florida-as-Cuba’s-Neverland ('The Other Lost Boys and Girls'), offering a spellbinding view of migration, memory, and belonging.
These short, lyric essays explore notions of migration and the ways that language both complicates and enriches the search for home.
Migratory Birds transports the reader on the wings of a precise and lyrical prose.
Part memoir, part history, and part travelogue, Migratory Birds explores the vicissitudes of language.
