Normally it blew at shift changes, 8AM and 4PM. What troubled my sleep started with the steam whistle at the cotton mill where my father worked. No, I was a night owl, up most of the dark hours watching and listening in the quiet. Charming, provocative, funny, and creepy as Hell, Night Birds will shake you up before leaving you all warm and fuzzy inside.ĭaddy called me Rooster, since most mornings he found me awake when he arose. The chapters explore themes of mental illness, religion, sexual orientation, witchcraft, and death through the eyes of this plucky girl growing up in a haunted house in the 1960’s.
Lucy’s grandmother may be a witch, her school’s lunch lady might be a murderer, and a mysterious figure stalks her in the small South Carolina town where she lives. This was the neighborhood in which Alta Mae and Cedric spend their early childhood. Many made the passage as indentured servants, then fled their masters upon arrival and hid among the countless homeless on the city’s streets, especially in the neighborhoods around Five Points, in lower Manhattan, areas so dangerous and crime-ridden, the police would not patrol them. During the Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1852), innumerable Irish came to New York City to escape hardship-more like out of the frying pan, into the fire. Additional significant influence on the language would have come from escaped black slaves fleeing from the South to the North. Most of the slang of the time, including the thieves cant of the streets, comes from England. The big waves of immigrants from eastern and southern Europe had not occurred yet, so the accents of those learning to speak the main language of the city, English, would have been most heavily influence by the English, Scottish, and Irish who immigrated to the city or were engaged in maritime trade there. Here’s the one we wrote about The Body by Stephen King:Īt the time, New York City had immigrants mostly from northern Europe and what’s now known as the UK. We were asked to write about our personal experience of reading those books. That title had to begin with “The best books…” The image below shows the title we chose and the five books we selected. We were asked to give that category a name that would become the title of our post. It included questions about us, the novel, and what five books by other authors were our favorites that might fall within a similar category.
The suggestion approved by, we received a template to fill out. Charming, provocative, funny, and creepy as Hell, Night Birds will shake you up before leaving you all warm and fuzzy inside.
The chapters consider themes of mental illness, religion, sexual orientation, witchcraft, and death as seen through the eyes of this plucky girl growing up in a haunted house in the 1960's. In Night Birds, Lucy's grandmother, Annie Maude, may be a witch, her school's lunch lady might be a murderer, and a mysterious figure stalks her in the small South Carolina town where she lives.
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