What Begins with Bird

"What Begins with Bird is both an investigation of family relationships and a sophisticated study of language and rhythm. Holland creates an exhilarating tension between the satisfactions of meaning and the attenuated beauty of lyric, making her fiction felt as deeply as it is understood. Holland's prose invokes a dreamscape, a panorama enclosing barns and men and guns and a mother trudging the cold hills in her nightgown."--BOOK JACKET.