{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Saving Jemima","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/saving-jemima","description":"For fans of Wesley the Owl and The Soul of an Octopus, the story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild by renowned writer/artist Julie Zickefoose. When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless, palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff. But she is starved and very sick. Julie\u0026#39;s constant care brings her around, and as Jemima is raised for eventual release, she takes over the house and the rest of the author\u0026#39;s summer. Shortly after release, Jemima turns up with a deadly disease. But medicating a free-flying wild bird is a challenge. When the PBS show Nature expresses interest in filming Jemima, Julie must train her to behave on camera, as the bird gets ever wilder. Jemima bonds with a wild jay, stretching her ties with the family. Throughout, Julie grapples with the fallout of Jemima\u0026#39;s illness, studies molt and migration, and does her best to keep Jemima strong and wild. She falls hard for this engaging, feisty and funny bird, a creative muse and source of strength through the author\u0026#39;s own heartbreaking changes. Emotional and honest, Saving Jemima is a universal story of the communion between a wild creature and the human chosen to raise it.","author_name":"Julie Zickefoose","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/julie-zickefoose","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/edition/30467055/content.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":204}