What the Birds See

"Hartnett has a genius for voice, her third-person narrative sliding effortlessly from Adrian's point-of-view to his grandmother's and back, always tightly filtering the story through the experiences and perceptions of her focus. The precision of language and unsentimental look into children's capacity for cruelty and despair recall Cormier, as does the weaving in and out of the mystery of the lost children as counterpoint....Exquisite, wrenching, unforgettable."Hartnett, Sonya is the author of 'What the Birds See', published 2003 under ISBN 9780763620929 and ISBN 0763620920.