Parakeet

Marie-Helene Bertino

earliest edition we have, 2020 Picador, 2021 paperback 240 pages

"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, unstab...

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Parakeet paperback · 2021 · Picador · 240 pages · 9781250798510
Parakeet hardcover · 2020 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 240 pages · 9780374229450
Parakeet edition · 2020 · Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 240 pages · 9780374721886

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