Paint the Bird

A perfect painting of a bird might combine frailty of form with strength of flight to give an illusion of life. But if the painter holds the bird too tight it dies. Georgeann Packard combines strength and weakness, image and reality, the frailty of the individual and the strength of the group in her......more

Seventy-year-old Reverend Sarah Obadias has run away from her life, and acts outside of what one would expect of someone of her profession: she goes home with a complete stranger – the relatively well-known painter Abraham Darby. Only things aren’t looking too hot for Darby either. His gay son, Yago......more

We have an unlikely set of characters here. There is black woman reverend, a father, Darby, who has never dealt with his feelings towards his homosexual son, the son’s partner and the mother of the homosexual couple’s child. Reverend Sara is obviously a lost soul she is having a one night stand with......more

Religion, Sexuality, and Death are the main focus of this beautifully written novel. A woman of the cloth, Sarah, who loses her Faith; Abraham, the handsome, lost artist; Johnny, the widowed father to Angelo; Yago, the deceased whose soul still lingers... these are just some of the intriguing charac......more

I won this Bound Galley on LibraryThing's Early Reviewers Giveaway. This novel has many subjects including death, artists, family relationships, homosexuality, religion, sex and apparitions. The author weaves all this into a story that was easy to follow with quite a few memorable characters. The nov......more