When a dust storm engulfs her Colorado town and pink snow blankets
the streets, a heartbreaking decision faces Ruby Cole, a girl who counts
birds. She must either abandon her baby or give in to her father, whom
she nicknames Lord God, and marry a man more than twice her age who
already has two wives. She chooses to run, which sets in motion an
interlocking series of actions and reactions, upending the lives of an
equestrian police officer, pawnshop riffraff, a disabled war vet,
Nuisance Animal destroyers, and a grieving ornithologist who is studying
the decline of bird populations. All the while, a growing criminal
enterprise moves from cattle rustling to kidnapping to hijacking fuel
tankers and murder as events spin out of control in a world in which the
social fabric and economic structures seem on the verge of falling
apart.
Set in a time of economic turmoil, virus fears, climate change, fundamentalist cults and illegal immigrant hardship, The Bird Saviors is a visionary story of defiance, anger, compassion and unexpected love, in which a young woman ultimately struggles to free herself from her domineering father, to raise her daughter in the chaos of the New West, and to seize an opportunity to become something greater herself. In this brilliant new novel, William Cobb offers an elemental and timely vision of resilience and personal survival, but—most of all—of honest hope.
Get a reading guide HERE.
Meet the author tomorrow night!
William Cobb with be reading from and signing his book at 7:30 pm tomorrow night, June 21, 2012, at our Colfax Avenue store.
Set in a time of economic turmoil, virus fears, climate change, fundamentalist cults and illegal immigrant hardship, The Bird Saviors is a visionary story of defiance, anger, compassion and unexpected love, in which a young woman ultimately struggles to free herself from her domineering father, to raise her daughter in the chaos of the New West, and to seize an opportunity to become something greater herself. In this brilliant new novel, William Cobb offers an elemental and timely vision of resilience and personal survival, but—most of all—of honest hope.
Get a reading guide HERE.
Meet the author tomorrow night!
William Cobb with be reading from and signing his book at 7:30 pm tomorrow night, June 21, 2012, at our Colfax Avenue store.
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