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'Crystal Chan's debut is a heartbreaker, a children's book with the potential to move readers of any age' - Metro
Crystal Chan grew up as a mixed-race kid in the middle of the Wisconsin cornfields and has been trying to find her place in the world ever since. She has published articles in several magazines, given talks and workshops across the country, facilitated discussion groups at national conferences, and been a professional storyteller for children and adults alike. In Chicago, where Crystal now lives, you will find her biking along the city streets and talking to her pet turtle. Bird is her first novel.
The extraordinary debut novel by Crystal Chan juggles a possible
suicide, a mute and terrifying grandfather, astronomy, geology,
betrayal and love with elegance and guts . . . The best thing about
Bird isn't just its cultural uniqueness – not many kids' novels are
about duppies, or Jamaican evil spirits – but how this excellent
book feels like it actually happened.
*Guardian*
Crystal Chan's debut is a heartbreaker, a children's book with the
potential to move readers of any age. Anyone who has ever felt like
a cuckoo in the nest will be grateful for this assured,
unsentimental novel.
*Metro*
Simultaneously sad and lovely, this is one of the best middle grade
books we have read in a long time.
*The Bookbag*
In a thoughtful debut, Chan weaves together topics of race,
repressed emotion, and destructive family dynamics, setting events
against the beauty of the Midwestern landscape. Jewel's gentle
voice offers moments of insight and wisdom as she becomes empowered
to move beyond her parents' losses and desires.
*Publishers Weekly*
Beautifully written literary debut novel about families and
secrets, with a hint of magic.
*Bookseller*
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