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.

[A] thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and home. In intimate pieces studded with references to history and literature, Oliver ponders such topics as the tug of home and the consequences of dislocation.

[A] collection of 10 graceful pieces that include meditations on place, language, exile, and memory.