num_pages: 291
description: Beginning with a story about a second-rate film actress involved with a mechanic who has not the least idea who she was as an actress or is as a human being, this is a series of portraits of the young, the hip, the lost, the unsettled and the unhinged of modern-day America.
language: English
title: Birds of America
titlecomplete: Birds of America
genres: Fiction, American, Short Stories, The United States Of America, Womens, Female Authors, Literature, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 15407
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Salon Book Award, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: O. Henry Award
category: 'People Like That Are the Only People Here', awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Village Voice Book of the Year, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Irish Times International Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Faber and Faber