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The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky
Owen Lark is losing pieces of himself. Words disappear. Rooms feel wrong. Strange bells ring before arguments. A black animal waits where nobody else can see it. And increasingly vivid stories begin opening inside his mind, places populated by people who seem to understand his life better than he does. His wife, Elise, is watching it happen. At first she records his symptoms because somebody has to.
She tracks the lost words, the sleepless nights, the anger, the hallucinations and the moments their daughter learns to check which version of her father has entered the room. Then Owen begins getting physically worse. Nausea. Weakness. Confusion. Long stretches of sleep. And occasionally, inexplicably, he gets better. As Owen starts searching for patterns in his own deterioration, his stories begin circling the same questions: when does care become control? What happens when fear changes the way we see someone we love? And how much harm can be done by a person who remains convinced they are helping?Meanwhile, their daughter Marnie keeps asking about the birds on the wires.
Owen tells her they hold up the sky. The truth is stranger, quieter and far more dangerous. The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky is a psychological thriller about marriage, mental illness, memory, love, fear and the terrible distance between intending to save someone and deciding who they are allowed to become.
She tracks the lost words, the sleepless nights, the anger, the hallucinations and the moments their daughter learns to check which version of her father has entered the room. Then Owen begins getting physically worse. Nausea. Weakness. Confusion. Long stretches of sleep. And occasionally, inexplicably, he gets better. As Owen starts searching for patterns in his own deterioration, his stories begin circling the same questions: when does care become control? What happens when fear changes the way we see someone we love? And how much harm can be done by a person who remains convinced they are helping?Meanwhile, their daughter Marnie keeps asking about the birds on the wires.
Owen tells her they hold up the sky. The truth is stranger, quieter and far more dangerous. The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky is a psychological thriller about marriage, mental illness, memory, love, fear and the terrible distance between intending to save someone and deciding who they are allowed to become.
