Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Author: Porter, Max (Author)

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 25 August 2016 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYWINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEWINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES/PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READER AWARDWINNER OF THE EUROPESE LITERATUURPRIJSSHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD'Amazing and unforgettable.' THE TIMES'Dazzlingly good.' ROBERT MACFARLANE'Unlike anything I've read before.' GUARDIAN'Captivating, poetic, and surprising.' CILLIAN MURPHY In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness.

In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter. This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him.