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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

10,000 Birds

Her narrator is Gabriel, 23, raised in Northern California by an American father and a Uruguayan mother. And the nandu, a South American rhea, has an intriguing chick-survival strategy: a week before hatching, the male (who does the incubating) pushes one egg out of the nest. What an ugly sentence that is.

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