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Parakeet
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino's Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one. The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: What is the Internet? Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: Go and find your brother. In the days that follow, The Bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried. A novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becoming a woman today, Parakeet asks and begins to answer the essential questions. How do our memories make, cage, and free us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest, truest selves? Who are we responsible for, what do we owe them, and how do we allow them to change? Urgent, strange, warm-hearted, and sly, Parakeet is ribboned with joy, fear, and an inextricable thread of real love. It is a startling, unforgettable, life-embracing exploration of self and connection.
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Godpants
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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I‘m ready for something surreal after a lot of heavy reads.

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akfreeborn
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Pickpick

A girl who is about to marry is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet who warns her not to marry and find her brother. This book is a fractured examination of modern life and love. I can‘t say more, just dive in. The less you know, the better.

Reggie Sounds like my type of book. Stacked! 4y
akfreeborn @Reggie hope you love it! 4y
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bibliobliss
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino

"The Internet is indifferent. It's the people who ruin it, posting only highlights, like every night is Saturday night. But most of life is Wednesday afternoon, and no one thinks that's meaningful. They omit loneliness and tedium. The people who do post honestly are considered whiners."

I love that passage SO MUCH

#currentlyreading #bookblurbs #blurbs #fiction #novels #life #truth

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bibliobliss
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Started on road trip. Just a few pages in -- not sure it will be for me. A few good blurbs so far, though, so I'm hopeful it will entertain beyond "wtf" Lol

#currentlyreading #strange #fiction #novels #paperbacks #giveaways #Goodreads #Goodreadsgiveaways

ElizaMarie Thats on a couple reading list I have been seeing. Hmm... I cant wait to see if you like it. (Before I stack it) 4y
bibliobliss @ElizaMarie Just started it. It's definitely strange but good so far. I'll be sure to let you know!! 😉 4y
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bibliobliss
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Thoughts? It sounds so strange 😁

#upnext #giveaways #Goodreads #fiction #novels #TBR #MountTBR

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BookNAround
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Today‘s #JuneARC will be released 6/2.

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Well-ReadNeck
Parakeet: A Novel | Marie-Helene Bertino
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Pickpick

I loved 2am at the Cat‘s Pajamas and couldn‘t wait for the author‘s latest. This entire novel takes place in the week before the narrator‘s wedding. A quirky and charming novel. Occasionally, the narrative gets a little hard to follow but overall a pick. #ARC #netgalley

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