It looks down at the rocks in a canyon and contemplates plunging, taking one fatal step to the right. Passion walks the edge of control, teasing. There would be no transport for me, not with a man who was that precise in the face of impending passion.
It told me something I refused to acknowledge: Alden would always be too careful. “That single careful gesture – the controlled placement of his pants. One of my favorite examples is when Meri first sleeps with Alden: By no means an uncommon decision at that time, we follow Meri through the years as she struggles with the balance of her own needs and living the life Alden has chosen for them.Įach chapter begins with ornithological terms of venery that mirror the chapters’ developments, allowing us to understand the characters by the behavior of the birds Meridian studies.ĭiscussion: The writing is exceptional. This engrossing book is about a would-be ornithologist in the 1940’s, Meridian (“Meri”) Wallace, who, while a student at the University of Chicago, meets physicist Alden Whetstone (twenty years Meri’s senior), and agrees to give up her dreams to follow his.
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