Title: The strange & beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender
Description: Born with bird wings into a family cursed to be foolish in love, sixteen-year-old Ava delves into her family's past hoping to understand her unusual nature and learn to fit in with her peers, but she is ill-prepared for what she discovers.

Born with the wings of a bird and eager to be accepted by her peers, 16-year old Ava ventures into the world, ill-prepared for what she discovers and naive to the twisted motives of others. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.
Subjects: Fantasy, Heredity, Fiction, Families, History, Teenage girls, Juvenile fiction, Progressivism (United States politics), Politics and government, Children's fiction, Twins, fiction, Brothers and sisters, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Family, fiction, Identity, fiction, Girls, fiction, Youth, fiction