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Pretty Birds, by Scott Simon is a quirky piece of writing. Taking place during the Serbian-Bosnian conflict, its characters are coarse but strangely sensitive, tough yet vulnerable, darkly humorous in /5(75). 9 rows ·  · Free download or read online Pretty Birds pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was /5. 8 rows ·  · The universally respected NPR journalist and bestselling memoirist Scott Simon makes a dazzling Brand: Random House Publishing Group.

Pretty Birds - by Scott Simon Imagine that you are a high school senior in Sarajevo, Bosnia in This is a modern European city, not so different from Santa Cruz or San Francisco. You are looking forward to the upcoming basketball game as you are the star of the team and you're having an affair with your hairy muscular coach. 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 s. In the early s, NPR journalist Scott Simon reported from war-torn Sarajevo. Those experiences formed the basis for his debut novel, Pretty Birds, the story of a year-old girl who adapts to.

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 s. In the spring of , Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school basketball team, a tough, funny teenager who has taught her parrot, Pretty Bird, to do a decent imitation of a ball hitting a hoop. In the early s, NPR journalist Scott Simon reported from war-torn Sarajevo. Those experiences formed the basis for his debut novel, Pretty Birds, the story of a year-old girl who adapts to. 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 s. In the spring of , Irena Zaric is a star on her Sarajevo high school basketball team, a tough.