Bird Suit - Sydney Hegele

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Résumé :

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the lake.

Every summer the peaches ripen in Port Peter, and the tourists arrive to gorge themselves on fruit and sun. They don't see the bird women, who cavort on the cliffs and live in a meadow beneath the lake. But when summer ends and the visitors go back home, every pregnant Port Peter girl knows what she needs to do: deliver her child to the Birds in a laundry basket on those same lakeside cliffs. But the Birds don't want Georgia Jackson.

Twenty years on, the peaches are ripening again, the tourists have returned, and Georgia is looking for trouble with any ill-tempered man she can find. When that man turns out to be Arlo Bloom--her mother's ex and the new priest in town--she finds herself drawn into a complicated matrix of friendship, grief, faith, sex, and love with Arlo, his wife, Felicity, and their son, Isaiah. Vivid, uncanny, and as likely cursed as touched by grace, Bird Suit is a brutal, generous story as sticky and lush as a Port Peter peach.

Biographie:

Sydney Hegele is the author of The Pump (2021), winner of the ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Their work has appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, EVENT, and others. Sydney grew up in the Niagara Region in Southern Ontario, and they currently live with their husband and French Bulldog in Toronto, Canada, where they work and worship.