![]() ![]() Now Tosca has sent his daughter to stay with Jim before she begins premedical studies at Yale. Thirty years ago, while stationed in the Solomon Islands, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. From his perch, he listens for birdcalls and thinks back on his youth, his romance with his now deceased wife, his work for the American Museum of Natural History, and earlier, for Naval Intelligence in the South Pacific. All he wants is to drink, smoke, and be left alone. On a weather-beaten island in Maine, a birder and WWII vet confronts his past in this “atmospheric and engrossing” novel ( People).Īfter a recent leg amputation, ornithologist and World War II veteran Jim Kennoway retreats to an island in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Maine. ![]()
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