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An "astonishing debut collection, with a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov" (Sara Gruen, author of Drinking water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating associations with humans, pets or animals, and the natural world. Exploring the way our selections and associations are molded by the menace and beauty of the natural world, Megan Mayhew Bergman's powerful and heartwarming collection captures the surprising moments when the take of the biology becomes evident, when love or fear collides with good sense, or when our attachment to an canine or outdoors place can't be denied. In "Housewifely Arts", a single mother and her son drive hours to locate an African grey bird that can mimic her deceased mother's tone of voice. A population-control activist encounters the ultimate issue between her loyalty to the surroundings and her maternal desire in "Yesterday's Whales". And in the subject story, a unhappy naturalist allows a wonderful stranger to lead her and her increasing age father on the search for an elusive woodpecker. As intelligent because they are moving, the stories in Wild birds of a Lesser Paradise are alive with emotion, wit, and understanding into the impressive electric power that mother nature has over-all of us. "That is a poignant prose menagerie" (Associated Press).
