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Kincaid, deeply disturbed by the apparent suicide of her best friend, launches her own investigation into the dead young woman's quixotic and often reckless life. 30,000 first printing. Tour.
Amazon.com Review
Set in the hothouse world of the Manhattan art scene, this second novel by Thulani Davis combines a haunting examination of modern melancholia with a good old-fashioned murder investigation. The protagonist is Bird, whose closest friend Alex Decatur has just died as a result of a fall--or was she pushed?--from a window. Alex's defenestration, and Bird's suspicions as to the involvement of her lover Frank Burton, an art critic who has savaged Bird's own paintings, sets the plot in motion. Bird is a bumbling gumshoe, but her obsession with Alex's death takes her further and further into her own sense of loss and stasis. This reflective and up-to-the-minute work hinges on Bird's search for a way back into her art--and her life.
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