Above Us Only Sky
By: Michele Young-Stone
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781451657678; 9781451657692; 9781451657685
Subjects: Human Abnormalities; Families; Grandfathers; Storytellers; Families -- Fiction; Fiction; Self-realization; Wings (Anatomy); Wings (Anatomy) -- Fiction; Self-realization in women; "On March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with a pair of wings molded to her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. At [sixteen] years old ... Prudence meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women, storytellers with wings dragging the dirt, survivors perched on radio towers, lovers lit up like fireworks, and heroes disguised as everyday men and women. Prudence sets forth on a quest to discover her ancestors, to grapple with wings that only one other person can see, and ultimately, to find out where she belongs"--Amazon.com; Self-realization in women -- Fiction; Abnormalities, Human -- Fiction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.