From the critically acclaimed author of Standing Still comes a psychologically charged novel about the power and failure of family.
From the critically acclaimed author of Standing Still comes a psychologically charged novel about the power and failure of family.
When Ann Biddle’s granddaughter Ellie asks for help with a school project about family history, Ann sees a rare chance to connect with the child she loves. But as the two begin piecing together the past, Ann’s carefully guarded memories start to fracture and resurface. Moving between present-day confusion and the vivid diary entries of her younger years, The Bird House reveals a family shaped by love, loss, betrayal, dementia, and secrets that have waited decades to be told.
“Some novels are meant to be read slowly, savoring each word, while others push you to keep turning pages, teased on by the promise of secrets revealed. And then there are novels that are both, like
The Bird House by Kelly Simmons. This book is so beautifully written that I felt guilty racing through it to discover what happens, and so I read it a second time, happy to spend another day under the spell of the story's brilliantly realized narrator.” —Lisa Tucker, author of
The Winters in Bloom 
