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Julia, Child by Kyo Maclear5/27/2023 She follows around a man she identifies as “the musician,” though his primary role is as a non-commital guide to the solace of urban birdwatching. In Birds Art Life, she chronicles a year, she contemplates art, she looks at birds. Whether working in fiction or non, Maclear is reaching for a whole story, a more full understanding that neither could truly tell on their own. Her most recent picture book, The Fog, licks at the realities of global warming, but through the eyes of a people-watching bird.īirds Art Life (Doubleday Canada) , Maclear’s first title to officially live in the bookstore’s nonfiction section, flips that perspective. Virginia Wolf posits the animalization of Virginia Woolf’s bad mood, Julia, Child imagines the cookbook author reverted to childhood. In her picture books, word play often becomes literal. Kyo Maclear skirts and samples fact in her fiction.
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