The Boy with a Bird in His Chest Techniques With its hipster-run Portland food

With its hipster-run Portland food truck pod and focus on real-world social issues like homelessness

Six friends

and every child who is frustrated by what they can't do

a stodgy young literature scholar determined to expose Myrddin as a fraud

has been systematically drained from our lives--our work

The Boy with a Bird in His Chest Techniques With its hipster-run Portland foodLonglisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize A "poignantly rendered and illuminating" (The Washington Post) coming of age story about "the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect" (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night. Though Owen Tanner has never met anyone else who has a chatty bird in their chest,