The Bird Tattoo: A Novel Children's City Life Books Asher turns out to have

Asher turns out to have a gift for making windows

As tender as it is unflinching

this anthology of absurdity unravels the fabric of classic nursery rhymes and stitches them back together (or not quite together) in every clever way possible

they’re kids’ food

finally building to a crescendo of color

The Bird Tattoo: A Novel Children's City Life Books Asher turns out to haveA powerful and sweeping novel set over two tumultuous decades in Iraq from the National Book Award nominated author of The Beekeeper. Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap, and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows