Birds of Paradise: A Novel [Paperback]

At thirteen, Felice Muir ranaway from home to punish herself for some horrible thing she had doneleaving ahole in the hearts of her pastry-chef mother, her real estate attorney father,and her foodie-entrepreneurial brother. After five years of scrounging forfood, drugs, and shelter on Miami Beach, Felice is now turning eighteen, andshe and the family she left behind must reckon with the consequences of heractionsand make life-affirming choices about what matters to them most, nowand in the future.A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jabers] table.Ron Charles,