Birds of Paradise (CD-Audio)

from msbaba

I'll leave other print reviews to give you plot summaries and to gush about the fascinating story and the author's rich, emotion-ladened, authentic, and nuanced prose. This review is focused primarily on the audiobook edition. Tamara Marston's reading of Diana Abu-Jaber's Birds of Paradise is exa...

from agnesmack

Birds of Paradise had me hooked from the start, and took me on a meandering, tense journey that I won't soon forget. The book tells the story of a family's heartbreak over the seemingly causeless runaway of their 14 year old daughter. Each chapter is told from a different perspective, and gives u...

from Kikoa

Plus plus plus...I have this in Audio Books on CD..This is a really good read. In the beginning I had a hard time getting the drift of it. But now that I am close to the end. All things make sense. I know that I do not leave the normal review...I don't like to explain the whole book. If you want ...

from CatieN

Felice Muir was 13 when she first ran away from home. No apologies, no explanations. Her parents, Avis and Brian, and her older brother, Stan, were heartsick, imagining the worst. She did return home but only to run away again and again until she finally stayed away for good. Felice eventually ma...

from RebaRelishesReading

Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber, is about a family in Miami with a run-away daughter. It looks at things from the perspective of each of the family members, what they're doing, how they're feeling. The characters are human and likeable and I found I really cared about what was happening to t...