Description: EDITORS'' CHOICE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL A Best Book of 2020 at Electric Literature , Refinery29 and Lit Hub A Best Book of Summer at Vulture , Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, Alma , Subway Book Review , and Lit Hub A Best Book of the Month at Entertainment Weekly , Hello Giggles , and PopSugar Most Anticipated at The New York Times Book Review , The Millions , The Rumpus , and Belletrist "What is Parakeet about? It''s about an ambivalent bride. It''s about PTSD, grief, forgiveness, bad mothers, womanhood, monogamy and the nature of time itself. It''s about being a woman trapped by her subconscious and social conventions." --Bess Kalb, The New York Times Book Review "Mournful, witty, and heartbreakingly honest." --Seija Rankin and David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly "The fantastic infiltrates the story in overtly metaphoric ways . . . But Ms. Bertino establishes a rationale for the madness beyond matrimonial jitters . . . Like most trauma fiction, Parakeet becomes narrowly preoccupied by a single, all-defining moment that somehow both reconfigures the past and sets the course for the future . . . But unlike most books in the genre, the novel isn''t lugubrious, instead steering into the experience of absurdity with a recklessness that keeps you guessing." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "An utterly humane, beautiful, weird, and accepting book." --Alexandra Kleeman, Lit Hub "I''ve been a wee bit obsessed with this hypnotic, semi-surrealist jewel of a book ever since I tore through a galley in the first two days of the new year . . . Strange in all the most wondrous ways, Parakeet is a dazzling hybridic work of riotous humor and aching pathos, a cold feet fantasia of outlandish and extraordinary proportions, and, above all else, an exquisitely written mediation on buried trauma and grief. I''ll bet good money that this shimmering, dreamlike novel is unlike any you''ve read before." -- Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In this brilliant romp . . . the voice is madcap, mythic, and exact--a tender, potent tragicomedy written with unapologetic panache . . . This is a book with a rare and brave hunger for feelings. Chaos and mystery are not something done to its people. The magic rises from who they are . . . [andeld, Entertainment Weekly "The fantastic infiltrates the story in overtly metaphoric ways . . . But Ms. Bertino establishes a rationale for the madness beyond matrimonial jitters . . . Like most trauma fiction, Parakeet becomes narrowly preoccupied by a single, all-defining moment that somehow both reconfigures the past and sets the course for the future . . . But unlike most books in the genre, the novel isn''t lugubrious, instead steering into the experience of absurdity with a recklessness that keeps you guessing." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "An utterly humane, beautiful, weird, and accepting book." --Alexandra Kleeman, Lit Hub "I''ve been a wee bit obsessed with this hypnotic, semi-surrealist jewel of a book ever since I tore through a galley in the first two days of the new year . . . Strange in all the most wondrous ways, Parakeet is a dazzling hybridic work of riotous humor and aching pathos, a cold feet fantasia of outlandish and extraordinary proportions, and, above all else, an exquisitely written mediation on buried trauma and grief. I''ll bet good money that this shimmering, dreamlike novel is unlike any you''ve read before." -- Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In this brilliant romp . . . the voice is madcap, mythic, and exact--a tender, potent tragicomedy written with unapologetic panache . . . This is a book with a rare and brave hunger for feelings. Chaos and mystery are not something done to its people. The magic rises from who they are . . . [anddish and extraordinary proportions, and, above all else, an exquisitely written mediation on buried trauma and grief. I''ll bet good money that this shimmering, dreamlike novel is unlike any you''ve read before." -- Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In this brilliant romp . . . the voice is madcap, mythic, and exact--a tender, potent tragicomedy written with unapologetic panache . . . This is a book with a rare and brave hunger for feelings. Chaos and mystery are not something done to its people. The magic rises from who they are . . . [andeld, Entertainment Weekly "The fantastic infiltrates the story in overtly metaphoric ways . . . But Ms. Bertino establishes a rationale for the madness beyond matrimonial jitters . . . Like most trauma fiction, Parakeet becomes narrowly preoccupied by a single, all-defining moment that somehow both reconfigures the past and sets the course for the future . . . But unlike most books in the genre, the novel isn''t lugubrious, instead steering into the experience of absurdity with a recklessness that keeps you guessing." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "An utterly humane, beautiful, weird, and accepting book." --Alexandra Kleeman, Lit Hub "I''ve been a wee bit obsessed with this hypnotic, semi-surrealist jewel of a book ever since I tore through a galley in the first two days of the new year . . . Strange in all the most wondrous ways, Parakeet is a dazzling hybridic work of riotous humor and aching pathos, a cold feet fantasia of outlandish and extraordinary proportions, and, above all else, an exquisitely written mediation on buried trauma and grief. I''ll bet good money that this shimmering, dreamlike novel is unlike any you''ve read before." -- Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In this brilliant romp . . . the voice is madcap, mythic, and exact--a tender, potent tragicomedy written with unapologetic panache . . . This is a book with a rare and brave hunger for feelings. Chaos and mystery are not something done to its people. The magic rises from who they are . . . [andeld, Entertainment Weekly "The fantastic infiltrates the story in overtly metaphoric ways . . . But Ms. Bertino establishes a rationale for the madness beyond matrimonial jitters . . . Like most trauma fiction, Parakeet becomes narrowly preoccupied by a single, all-defining moment that somehow both reconfigures the past and sets the course for the future . . . But unlike most books in the genre, the novel isn''t lugubrious, instead steering into the experience of absurdity with a recklessness that keeps you guessing." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "An utterly humane, beautiful, weird, and accepting book." --Alexandra Kleeman, Lit Hub "I''ve been a wee bit obsessed with this hypnotic, semi-surrealist jewel of a book ever since I tore through a galley in the first two days of the new year . . . Strange in all the most wondrous ways, Parakeet is a dazzling hybridic work of riotous humor and aching pathos, a cold feet fantasia of outlandish and extraordinary proportions, and, above all else, an exquisitely written mediation on buried trauma and grief. I''ll bet good money that this shimmering, dreamlike novel is unlike any you''ve read before." -- Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In this brilliant romp . . . the voice is madcap, mythic, and exact--a tender, potent tragicomedy written with unapologetic panache . . . This is a book with a rare and brave hunger for feelings. Chaos and mystery are not something done to its people. The magic rises from who they are . . . [anddish and extraordinary proportions, and, above all else, an exquisitely written mediation on buried trauma and grief. I''ll bet good money that this shimmering, dreamlike novel is unlike any you''ve read before." -- Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In this brilliant romp . . . the voice is madcap, mythic, and exact--a tender, potent tragicomedy written with unapologetic panache . . . This is a book with a rare and brave hunger for feelings. Chaos and mystery are not something done to its people. The magic rises from who they are . . . [anddish and extraordinary proportions, and, above all else, an exquisitely written mediation on buried trauma and grief. I''ll bet good money that this shimmering, dreamlike novel is unlike any you''ve read before." -- Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In this brilliant romp . . . the voice is madcap, mythic, and exact--a tender, potent tragicomedy written with unapologetic panache . . . This is a book with a rare and brave hunger for feelings. Chaos and mystery are not something done to its people. The magic rises from who they are . . . [andeld, Entertainment Weekly "The fantastic infiltrates the story in overtly metaphoric ways . . . But Ms. Bertino establishes a rationale for the madness beyond matrimonial jitters . . . Like most trauma fiction, Parakeet becomes narrowly preoccupied by a single, all-defining moment that somehow both reconfigures the past and sets the course for the future . . . But unlike most books in the genre, the novel isn''t lugubrious, instead steering into the experience of absurdity with a recklessness that keeps you guessing." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "An utterly humane, beautiful, weird, and accepting book." --Alexandra Kleeman, Lit Hub "I''ve bee

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