What Birds Can Only Whisper: a Novel

Kendra Quillan, the leader of a feminist band in Toronto, journeys from imminent career success back into her past to confront her troubled childhood.?Bold is too heartless a word for Julie Brickman?s stunning first novel: brave. Fresh is too tame for her sizzling style?try spectacular. This novel takes us to the post-trauma depths of the psyche; it?s like being in a submarine whose searchlight makes us gasp at never-before-seen crevasses, life-forms, seams of fire?terrible and beautiful.??Sena Jeter Naslund, author of The Animal Way to Love