![]() ![]() Winner of the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction, Alice Greenway's second novel is "a beautiful, ultimately painful story as haunting as its settings" ( Publishers Weekly). Yet she will capture his heart and that of everyone she meets, irrevocably changing their lives. She arrives to Jim's consternation, bringing with her a flood of troubling memories. Now Tosca has sent his daughter to stay with Jim before she begins premedical studies at Yale. Jim curses the intrusion as he finds his thoughts catapulting back to his youth and a dark truth about his time in the Solomons. ![]() Thirty years ago, while stationed in the Solomon Islands, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. an island scout Jim befriended during the war when they collected and skinned birds while spying on the Japanese. From his perch, he listens for birdcalls and thinks back on his youth, his romance with his now deceased wife, his work for the American Museum of Natural History, and earlier, for Naval Intelligence in the South Pacific. All he wants is to drink, smoke, and be left alone. After a recent leg amputation, ornithologist and World War II veteran Jim Kennoway retreats to an island in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Maine. The Bird Skinner is enlivened by its surprising mixture of cultures and languages, with Latin species names sharing space with Cadillacs songs in Islands. On a weather-beaten island in Maine, a birder and WWII vet confronts his past in this "atmospheric and engrossing" novel ( People). Nurses Pocket Guide: Diagnoses, Interventions, and RationalesAlice C. ![]()
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