BYRD
Book ID/图书代码： 02330014B71430
English Summary/英文概要： Addie Lockwood believes in books. Roland Rhodes believes in blues guitar. Coming of age in the small-town South of the 1970s, they form a friendship as extraordinary as it is unlikely.
They meet again in their disillusioned thirties, this time in California, where Roland’s music career has landed him. Venice Beach is exotic, a world away from North Carolina and Addie’s cloistered life as a bookstore clerk.
But when her whirlwind reunion with Roland leaves Addie pregnant, reality sets in. Conflicted, unready to be a mother, she gives birth to a son--Byrd--and surrenders him for adoption without telling Roland, little imagining how the secret will shape their lives.
Told through letters and sharply drawn vignettes, Byrd is an unforgettable story about making and living with the most difficult, intimate, and far-reaching of choices.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 艾迪·洛克伍德热爱书。罗兰·洛兹热爱蓝调吉他。他们相遇在1970年的南方小镇，建立了一段不可思议的友谊。
他们在失意的30岁再次于加利福尼亚相遇，罗兰的音乐事业一蹶不振。而艾迪则搬到了几乎与世隔绝的威尼斯海滩，在那里做一个书店职员。
与罗兰的短暂相遇后，艾迪发现自己怀孕了。她感到很矛盾，完全没有为人母准备的她把自己的儿子，伯德交由他人领养，而罗兰对这一切一无所知。想象一下这秘密将会给他们各自的人生带来什么的改变吧。
《伯德》以书信的形式呈现，穿插尖锐的小插曲，构成了这个难忘的故事。人生在世，就是要不断与最艰难的、最亲密的人共存，做出些举足轻重的决定。（XAT）
Awards/获奖情况：“非常棒的作品，每个转折处都非常吸引人。”——吉尔·麦克科，纽约时代畅销书《死亡回忆》作者
“金姆·丘奇的这部处女作非常难忘、引人入胜。有些书我们爱读是因为它能让我们了解完全不一样的世界，但是有些书却像《伯德》这样，让我们对自己的生活有进一步的审视。”——《书页》
“《伯德》中的主角非常吸引人，她有坚定不移的道德标准，她犯的错全因其慷慨的本能。整本书的节奏抑扬顿挫，非常轻快，描述了年轻的生命伊始，充满了诺言、踌躇和弥补，读完会让你放松身心。”——黛布拉·梦露，《不像正常人》作者
“一部出色的处女作。”——罗恩·瑞什，纽约时代畅销书籍《塞丽娜》和《美好易逝》作者
“艾迪是个非常特别的女人，一个会让你深深爱上的女人，但她又像你的姐姐，你的大学室友，你的邻居朋友...金姆·丘奇为我们构建了一个新世界，在这个世界中，好人有时候不太像好人，他们就像身边的人。我永远忘不了读完最后一页的感受”——帕特里夏·亨利，国家图书奖最终入围者，《其他心碎的理由》作者
“故事的结构非常丰富，探索了母性和母性的一些从属关系，让我们有了一些新的观念。金姆在短篇故事中已经相当有知名度，而她的这部小说处女作将会为她赢得更多的关注。”——安吉拉·戴维斯·加德纳，《蝴蝶的孩子》作者
“《伯德》的语言非常美丽梦幻，让我们和书中角色紧密相连，故事情节直击心脏，勾起了对往事的回忆。”——南希·皮考克，纽约时代畅销书《没有水的生活》和《普斯蒙·威尔逊的生活和时代》
Announcing the Long List for the 2014 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize-Church/Townsend
"Brilliant writing - lively and heartbreaking at every turn." - Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life
"Kim Church has created an unforgettable and gripping tale about a young woman’s passage to adulthood in a small town in North Carolina in her excellent debut novel, Byrd. There are books we like to read because they provide a window to a world wholly unfamiliar, but there are others like Byrd that give insight into our own lives." - BookPage
"This protagonist is so appealing, with her unflinching moral candor, her mistakes based on generous instincts. The prose is lilting, joyous. This novel--about young lives that start out full of promise, falter, then recover--is a hard luck story that will make you feel good." -- Debra Monroe, author of On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain
"A riveting debut." -- Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena and Nothing Gold Can Stay
"Addie is a particular woman -- a character that will linger and grow beloved -- but she could also be your sister, your roommate from college, a friend in the neighborhood. ... Kim Church has imagined a world of good people missing the mark as good people sometimes do. They’re familiar, a comfort. I will never forget the impact of the final pages." -- Patricia Henley, National Book Award finalist and author of Other Heartbreaks
"A richly layered story that explores motherhood and its attendant relationships in ways that break new ground, both stylistically and thematically. Already recognized for her work in the short story form, Kim Church should gain national attention with this original and important novel." -- Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Butterfly’s Child
"Beautiful, dream-like language ... connects us directly with the experience of the characters. It goes right to the heart, without being filtered through the brain, the way a smell connects you to a memory." -- Nancy Peacock, New York Times notable author of Life Without Water and The Life & Times of Persimmon Wilson
About the Author/作者介绍： 金姆·丘奇的短篇故事曾被刊登在《谢南多厄》、《密西西比评论》、《新娘画报》、《闪电小说》和其他一些媒体上。金姆曾获得过手推车奖提名，还获得过多家机构的奖学金，其中包括北卡罗莱纳艺术委员会、弗吉尼亚创新艺术中心、米莱艺术、以及佛蒙特艺术中心。金姆现与丈夫，艺术家安东尼·尤林斯基居于北卡洛琳娜，罗利。《伯德》是她的第一部小说。
Kim Church’s short stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Mississippi Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Flash Fiction Forward, and elsewhere. A Pushcart Prize nominee, she has received fiction fellowships from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, artist Anthony Ulinski. Byrd is her first novel.
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