A review by jdgcreates
Birds of Paradise by Diana Abu-Jaber

3.0

This was a solid novel with an interesting story, but I found myself skipping/skimming chunks of it because Abu-Jaber goes a little ga-ga for description--as in, she breaks the flow of the story and drowns out the characters' voices with her (admittedly well wrought) metaphors...for everything. With some stronger editing, this would've been really good.