Mourning Doves (and other sad birds)

it turns out LOTS of writers are thinking about birds as metaphors for grief

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created by peryton

last updated August, 2026

8 books

The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X.R. Pan

Hollow Kingdom (Hollow Kingdom, #1)

Kira Jane Buxton

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Looking Up: A Birder's Guide to Hope Through Grief

Courtney Ellis

Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Max Porter

The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar

The Hurting Kind: Poems

Ada Limon

H Is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

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How fascinating! I looove birds so much (literally obsessed) so now I want to read all these books

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