Synopses & Reviews
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4“The world is full of continuous conversations: Now is surrounded by Past, and both are encircled by Forever.” So states an unnamed narrator in Sara Greenslit’s new novel As if a Bird Flew by Me. Celia lives in the contemporary Midwest. Ann is an accused witch, executed during the Salem witch trials. Two women separated by time and place, yet yoked by heritage and history. Set in three time periods, stories within stories unfold, and Greenslit’s language seamlessly weaves Celia’s modern life with the historical record of Ann’s demise alongside dazzling renderings of animal life. Greenslit’s hybrid of fiction and nonfiction occupies that rarest of airs: it is a book that illuminates, line by line and page by page, how it should be read.Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4
Review
Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4“In her brilliant lyric novel As If a Bird Flew By Me, author Sara Greenslit spins a truly stunning, and often eerie, narrative from the careful cataloguing, seamless weaving, and inextricable interchange of music and language.”--Susan Steinberg
Review
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4“Birds, we learn from Sara Greenslit’s As if a Bird Flew By Me, have a mantra of migration, an internal logic, rhythm, and music, invisible yet moving, and so does the world she depicts in this book: a cartography of musicians shaped by the vibrations they press into music, of the invisible histories, natural forces, and poetries that continually remake the world. Like butterflies in a collection, the individual specimens that make up this book are each a song, and together a symphony.”--Steve Tomasula
Synopsis
Two women, separated by time and place, yoked by heritage and history. Cella, an aspiring cellist in the contemporary Midwest. Ann Pudeator, an accused witch executed during the Salem Witch Trials. In Sara Greenslit’s new novel,
AS If a Bird Flew By Me, the connections between these two characters, as well as the divides, allow the reader along with Celia, to find, if it can be found, the unity that makes life and history’s fragments cohere.
Synopsis
"The world is full of continuous conversations: Now is surrounded by Past, and both are encircled by Forever." So states an unnamed narrator in Sara Greenslit's new novel As if a Bird Flew by Me. Celia lives in the contemporary Midwest. Ann is an accused witch, executed during the Salem witch trials. Two women separated by time and place, yet yoked by heritage and history. Set in three time periods, stories within stories unfold, and Greenslit's language seamlessly weaves Celia's modern life with the historical record of Ann's demise alongside dazzling renderings of animal life. Greenslit's hybrid of fiction and nonfiction occupies that rarest of airs: it is a book that illuminates, line by line and page by page, how it should be read.
Synopsis
Two women, separated by time and place, yoked by heritage and history. Cella, an aspiring cellist in the contemporary Midwest. Ann Pudeator, an accused witch executed during the Salem Witch Trials. In Sara Greenslit's new novel, AS If a Bird Flew By Me, the connections between these two characters, as well as the divides, allow the reader along with Celia, to find, if it can be found, the unity that makes life and history's fragments cohere. Yet As If a Bird Flew By Me does much more than tell the story of a musician trying to make sense of her past, and Greenslit's language does more than merely describe music; it bears the light and steel of the finest symphony. Weaving seamlessly Celia's life and the historical record of Ann Pudeator along with dazzling renderings of avian and animal life, Greenslit's fiction and non-fiction hybrid occupies that rarest of air: a book that illumines, line by line, page by page, even bird by bird, how it should be read.
About the Author
Sara Greenslit has won two innovative fiction awards for her novels, As If a Bird Flew By Me (FC2) and The Blue of Her Body (Starcherone). She earned an MFA in poetry from Penn State and lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where she is a small animal veterinarian.