Title: Catbird
Author: Julia Marie Davis
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Current Affairs
With the immediacy of an op-ed and the narrative feel of a memoir, Catbird embodies the visceral response—angst and exasperating sense of helplessness inflamed by the distance between the will of the people and our national policy, and the bewilderment we feel—to the barbaric violence and violations of human rights happening in Ukraine. Set against the background of seasonal drama in the bird world, it has the sense of a fable, while still holding all the anxiety of the contemporary events we are living through, witnessing, mourning, and opposing.
Told in a series of micro-episodes, Davis channels the fears and fragility of the world order, mirroring the anxiety caused by a continual barrage of contemporary conflicts we are living through: witnessing, mourning, opposing. A simple and straightforward story on the surface, Catbird expresses untold angst and an exasperating sense of helplessness. This feeling is inflamed by the distance between the will of the people, evolving national policies, and the bewilderment we feel—to the barbaric violence and the violations of human rights unfolding not just in Ukraine but elsewhere around the world.
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Julia Marie Davis is an American poet and novelist. Julia’s writing has appeared in The Bangalore Review, The Dillydoun Review, New Note Poetry, Moonstone Arts Center’s Nasty Women’s Anthology , and TaintTaintTaint Literary Magazine. She holds a BA in English from Boston College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. Her novella, CATBIRD (2024, Middle Creek Publishing & Audio) weaves a fictional narrative with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, delivering a poignant lyrical message of hope and resilience in the face of global turmoil.
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This book sounds really interesting. Thanks for sharing.