City of Starlings G.P. Putnam's Sons and enduring friendships

and enduring friendships

He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers

and we will not see

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City of Starlings G.P. Putnam's Sons and enduring friendshipsThe world of Daniel Nathan Terry's City of Starlings, which is our world, is "disastrously beautiful." That's how he describes a camellia blooming beside a condemned house just across the street. Indeed it is that nearness the proximity of beauty and loss that drives this book. A puppy (named Lucky) discovered nuzzled up beside his car crushed brother, or the light limning a white egret at the very moment a friend's child is stillborn. In a book