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Title: Paint the Bird
Author: Georgeann Packard
Narrator: Robin Miles, Kirby Heyborne
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-15-13
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
The Reverend Sarah Obadias is broken, bitter, and stripped of the reassurance of faith when she walks into a West Village restaurant in Manhattan. Here she encounters Abraham Darby, a rumpled but well-regarded painter who seduces the minister into his life of excess and emotional intensity. "Ive run away from my life," Sarah tells him. "I know," Darby replies. "Take mine." But for Sarah,each day with the artist will bring a new reality - or lack of it.
Dancing through the novel is the mystical Yago, the gay son of Darby and the Costa Rican painter Alejandra Morales Díaz. But Alejandras appearance further discomposes Sarah, and Yago provides no calm or clarity when she encounters him: "Somehow he has transported her to an unfamiliar state of mindless eroticism. Finally she draws closer to Yago, intending to caress him in some horrible mix of mothering and lust"
Bloodlines become squiggled and unreliable as the novel explores the ever-changing relationship between fathers and sons and what constitutes a family. Throughout, one question lingers: What really did happen when a small boy was swallowed by the sea?
Laced with humor and a linguistic vibrancy, this tale of converging fates becomes a contemplation of faith, faithfulness, and the sticky, often unpleasant and frightening nature of spiritual and emotional growth.
Members Reviews:
A Magical Book
I loved Paint the Bird. After I turned the last page, I still longed to be with the characters of Sarah, Darby, Yago and Johnny. They were like my friends telling me what it means to begin again. Together, we laughed, loved and wrung our hands. Each character handles transformation differently, and in that difference is the gift of insight. I highly recommend this wonderful book- to be savored while you read and for a long time beyond.
Vivian Eyre, author of To the Sound
A surreal novel that flirts with magical realism
Seventy-year-old Reverend Sarah Obadias has run away from her life, and acts outside of what one would expect of someone of her profession: she goes home with a complete stranger â the relatively well-known painter Abraham Darby. Only things arenât looking too hot for Darby either. His gay son, Yago, has just died due to complications related to antiretroviral treatment, and heâs struggling to come to terms with his sonâs homosexuality and his death.
But Yagoâs husband, Johnny, enters the mix as well, and they have a son, Angelo, and Darby is awkward around them as he is with most people. You are also eventually introduced to Yagoâs mother, the painter Alejandra Morales Diaz (but sheâs no longer married to Darby).
Put all these people in the mix, with Yago as the focus, and there are bound to be some interesting results.
The story itself is centred around the grieving process. Even Sarah finds herself touched by Yagoâs spirit (perhaps almost literally) and the complex relationship between family is examined, as well as how one deals with death and betrayal.
