The Bird Market of Paris: A Memoir
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An avian expert and poet traces her loving relationship with her fellow bird-loving grandfather in 1980s Miami, describing how he taught her to care for and understand birds before his death and how she pursued recovery from alcoholism during a fateful trip to the Parisian bird market. 40,000 first printing.
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Nikki Moustaki has had a lifelong love affair with birds, a love affair inspired and nurtured by her grandfather's love and respect for birds. But when Nikki was a young woman, she had to abandon her birds during a hurricane and, when she returned, she found, to her horror, that most of her birds had suffered an awful death. For years she blamed herself and she began a gradual and total decline into alcoholism. It is only when she rediscovers birds that she begins her emergence from this darkness. And that is this beautiful story.
