Birds of Paradise Lost Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Then there's Delilah Bard

Then there's Delilah Bard

" —Hannah Whitten

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While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible

Birds of Paradise Lost Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney Then there's Delilah Bard*Finalist for the California Book Award* The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of Americas newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The pastmemories of war and its aftermath, of murder, arrest, re education camps and new economic zones, of escape and shipwreck and atrocityis ever present in