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Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Parakeet about?
**Highly Anticipated at The New York Times, Vulture, Refinery29, Yahoo! Life, The Millions, Alma, The Rumpus, and Lit Hub**"Miraculous: spry and mordant, with sentences that lull you with their rhythms, then twist suddenly and sting." —Lauren Groff, author of Florida"A twisting, strange delight, Parakeet shimmers a soft and generous light on the darkest of a woman's innermost thoughts." —Kristen Iversen, Refinery29Acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas Marie-Helene Bertino's Parakeet is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one.The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious...
Who reads Parakeet?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Marie-Helene Bertino
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Women'S Fiction
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (326 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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