Birds of America by Chera Hammons Ingram the house sets in motion

the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves

One of Publishers Weekly's Best YA Book of the Year

Desperate for answers

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but when a squirrel buries Acorn he is forced to stay still in the dark until the exciting changes begin

Birds of America by Chera Hammons Ingram the house sets in motionWhat does it mean to love someone, and to love the world, when what we love is vanishing? In Birds of America, award winning poet Chera Hammons reckons with the intersection of personal violence and the violence humans have wrought upon our planet and explores the beauty that remains among the ruins. With graceful lyricism, she translates seemingly mundane scenes from the natural world two eagles locked together in a tandem dive, the fresh sweetness