{"id":1580,"date":"2023-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T20:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2025-01-03T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T21:45:40","slug":"fed-to-red-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2023\/05\/13\/fed-to-red-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fed to Red Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Rijn Collins<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Simon &amp; Schuster<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, May 13th 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Award-winning Australian short story writer Rijn Collins has a background in linguistics and a penchant for the odd and the obsessed. She is also a self-taught taxidermist and has studied the pathology of xylophagia (paper-eating) and trichotillomania (compulsive hair-pulling). All are on display in this, her debut novel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Her protagonist, a young Australian woman, Elva Bloom, has travelled to Reykav\u00edc in search of her Icelandic roots. Here she has found a place for herself, working in a shop selling Victorian arcana, studying for the national language exam, and dabbling with taxidermy.\u00a0 But much as she loves her new home, she remains haunted by memories of a mother lost in childhood and the legacy of her grandfather Afi, whose beloved children\u2019s book, the titular <em>Fed to Red Birds<\/em>, is the source of her name. It is also the focus of the OCD she is unable to outrun, despite travelling to the other side of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Imbued in the magic-realism of the subarctic circle and the light and shadow of fairy tale, <em>Fed to Red Birds<\/em> depicts the isolation of mental illness with an honesty seldom seen in popular fiction. It is a story of weird and wonderful beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rijn Collins Simon &amp; Schuster Otago Daily Times, May 13th 2023 Award-winning Australian short story writer Rijn Collins has a background in linguistics and a penchant for the odd and the obsessed. She is also a self-taught taxidermist and has studied the pathology of xylophagia (paper-eating) and trichotillomania (compulsive hair-pulling). All are on display in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[428,370,18,437],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-428","tag-fiction","tag-odt","tag-rijn-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}