A Catalog of Birds

A Catalog of Birds

By Laura Harrington
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“Echoes of war haunt this audiobook. One character after another is altered by the aftershocks of the Vietnam War, and narrator Josh Bloomberg tries mightily to capture all their voices and sorrows….The prose and the performance blend seamlessly.”

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Billy Flynn always wanted to fly. An attractive young man, a patriot, he is also an artist with pencil and paint and has an abiding affinity for nature. It’s 1970, and he cannot resist the call to serve in Vietnam. A year later he is the only survivor when his helicopter is shot down.

A wounded Billy returns home to his family in upstate New York, especially to Nell, his adoring younger sister. In his absence, the woman he loves has mysteriously disappeared. His wounds have crippled his ability to even hold a pencil, and his hearing loss has cut him off from the natural world. Nell, a brilliant student headed for a career in science, will do all that’s possible to save him.

A Catalog of Birds is the story of a family and a community confronted with a loss of innocence and wounds that may never heal. The legacy of war and its destruction of nature is seared onto the memories of a small American town.

Laura Harrington has written a tale of forgiveness, of ourselves and those we love. Illuminated by heartbreak and promise, the novel is alive with spirit, wonder, and hope for the future.

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  1. Odin
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    Harrowing story of Vietnam wounded recouperating.

    With the Vietnam War as a backdrop, a returning vet, Billy Flynn, comes home severely burned and incapacitated. His hand which could draw birds like no other before the war is now a dead part of his body. With the support of his family and girlfriend, he undergoes numerous operations and unique training for his condition only to find out he still can barely hold a pencil, let alone draw again. Thus continues the long road back to a modicum of both physical and psychological health. Throughout the story, Josh Bloomberg narrates with compassion and realism rendering this story both a personal and an objective universal reminder that in the end, no one ends war, for the next one is just around the corner.

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