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The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling fiction debut. In Pretty Birds , Simon creates an intense, startling, and tragicomic portrait of a classic character–a young woman in the besieged city of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. In the... read more

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First Sentence

IRENA ZARIC PUT HER LAST STICK OF GUM IN HER MOUTH, WINKED at a bird, and wondered where to put her last bullet before going home.

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  1. Scott Simon (Author)
 

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