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Here he is, husband and father, scruffy passionate, a shambolic scholar - a guy adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental loss of life. And there are his two sons who like him have difficulty in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, as the kids wander, savage and unsupervised. In this second of violent despair they are simply been to by Crow - antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter. This self-described "sentimental bird", simultaneously wild and soft, who "finds humans lifeless except in grief", threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no more need him. As weeks decide on months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of thoughts, Crow's efforts are compensated and the little unit of three starts to recuperate: Father resumes his publication about the poet Ted Hughes; the kids get on with it, develop up. Part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Potential Porter's remarkable debut combines compassion and bravura style to stunning effect. Filled with angular wit and deep truths, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent.
