A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)
10,000 Birds
MARCH 25, 2020
In Gaines’ first novel Carbon Dreams (2001) the science (there, geology) tended to overwhelm the story, but in Accidentals, she incorporates ornithology and microbiology skillfully into a well-woven whole. Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. What an ugly sentence that is.
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