The Bird Sisters, (Paperback)

from ImBookingIt

What a nice book!By nice, I don't mean that nothing unpleasant happens-- that's not true at all. There's lots of very human bad behavior and a chunk of good, old-fashioned bad luck. But the way the characters deal with it, for better or worse, just made me relax and enjoy the book-- with a tissue...

from lauralkeet

Now in their 70s, Milly and Twiss live in their family home, on a gravel road near the small town of Spring Green, Wisconsin. They are known for miles around as the "bird sisters," for their ability to treat and rehabilitate injured birds, but fewer and fewer people visit them these days. Their d...

from SonjaYoerg

First off, the cadences in the prose are lovely. I read ten pages, then put Rasmussen's second novel, Evergreen, on my list. Yup, that good.The sisters, Millie and Twiss, are wonderful folks to spend time with, as are the other members of the cast. (Except one. I won't say which. Yuck.) This stor...

from UnderMyAppleTree

Milly and Twiss are spinster sisters living in the small town of Spring Green, Wisconsin, in the same house where they grew up. They spent their lives mending birds and the hearts of others, but they could not do the same for themselves. As young girls this was not the way they imagined their liv...

from siobhanfallon

The Bird Sisters tells a tale of how the people you love the most in the world are the ones who can most surely destroy you. This is the summer of 1947, when Milly and Twiss try to stitch their parents' relationship back together again, when their local priest runs off to gamble Church funds in M...