So yes, Cher Ami is a pigeon - she's born in England, trained as a homing pigeon, and goes to war to help the Americans. This has ALL kinds of disaster potential. The pigeon parts are, yes indeed, narrated by the pigeon. The novel intertwines the stories of a hero messenger pigeon and a hero soldier during a little-remembered episode of World War 1. I'll admit it: I picked up her new novel a bit skeptically. With her new novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, she pulls off this trick again! I should know by now, fool me once, etc. I would not have thought it possible, but it worked! I loved that book - and am still a bit gobsmacked about the delta between my expectations going in and how much I liked it. In her last novel Lillian Boxfish Takes A Walk, Kathleen Rooney got me to care deeply about an old woman wandering around New York City on New Year's Eve.
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