In this feminist-inspired fantasy, a rejected wife starts seeing birds everywhere, including the sleek, cobalt-blue parakeet staring back at her in the mirror┬а
After being dumped by her husband of twenty-seven years, losing her house, and selling her jewelry at auction, Sassafras тАЬSassyтАЭ Hummel takes the only job sheтАЩs qualified for: maid at a luxury hotel. As if her life werenтАЩt surreal enough, a bird poops on her head while sheтАЩs cleaning a suite. But SassyтАЩs sure sheтАЩs really gone off the deep end when, instead of her reflection in the mirror, a tiny blue parakeet stares back at her. Now sheтАЩs seeing birds everywhere: cranes, crows, hornbills, a quacking, green-headed duck, a quail, and something red and blue that bobs as it flies past. SassyтАЩs only friend is Racquel, the owner of Plumage,┬аthe hotelтАЩs upscale boutique. Racquel isnтАЩt the preening, froufrou, silk-and-sequins-enamored lady she seems to be. Soon Sassy and Racquel are traveling into an uncharted land where Sassy just might find out who she is and what she really wants.
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Plumage┬аis a wise, witty, and poignant novel about a woman whose life is for the birds┬а.┬а.┬а. until she discovers her wings, and her world takes flight.
тАЬSpringer has redefined the concept of тАШknight in shining armor.тАЩ With a touch of Alice Hoffmanesque magic, a colorfully painted avian world and a winning heroine, this is pure fun.тАЭ тАФPublishers Weekly
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тАЬA writerтАЩs writer, an extraordinarily gifted craftsman.тАЭ тАФJennifer Roberson
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тАЬIrresistible┬а.┬а.┬а.┬аcharming, eccentric┬а.┬а.┬а.┬аthoughtful and significant.тАЭ тАФKirkus Reviews
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тАЬNancy Springer writes like a dream.тАЭ тАФSt. Louis Post-Dispatch