Description
When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears.
Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in, too—a murder of crows stalks her every move around the city, she wakes up from a dream of drowning throwing up water, and gets threatening text messages from someone claiming to be Sabrina—Mackenzie knows this is more than she can handle alone.
Traveling north to her rural hometown in Alberta, she finds her family still steeped in the same grief that she ran away to Vancouver to escape. They welcome her back, but their shaky reunion only seems to intensify her dreams—and make them more dangerous.
Victoria Shields @anika.gleason_651
February 16, 2023
4
This book hooked me early and often. I have not experienced the kinship described in the novel, in my own life, but it felt vicariously real and true, even in the midst of the most fantastical moments. The first lesson of the novel is that Aunties are the nourishing glue holding everything together. This idea of a matriarchal system of care really appeals to me. Throughout this slippery, yet captivating story, the author focuses on the power of female bonding, and how those connections can provide a safety net in a perilous life, a weapon against all kinds of horrors.