neuroqueer_af 's review for:

Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War by Sebastian Faulks

2.0

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Have you ever heard an old person talk about their past? Imagine if someone took a string of those anecdotes and made them into a book. Unless the elder in question was objectively interesting, those stories are probably better off as a part of an informal, oral tradition than shoved into a tome and yoked to heavy-handed symbolism, because that's basically what Birdsong is.