Songbirds by Christy Lefteri
My Rating: ★★★★
This novel has an ominousness that lurks and grows throughout the work.
What is even more brilliant and beautiful about it is the level of loss, love and grief that it covers only to really rip your heart out when you find out in the author’s notes that it is a fictional account of something that actually occurred.
I’m not often a fan of first-person prose, or of novels that flip back and forth between different characters’ perspectives, but for this one, it worked. It was the only way for the love of the lost Nisha to shine through and how much of her life left such a gapping hole in so many other lives.