Songbirds : a novel / Christy Lefteri.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Ballantine Books, 2021.Edition: 1st edDescription: 320 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780593238042 (hardcover)
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Fiction | West Grey Durham Branch Shelves | Fiction | FIC LEF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 33321003210037 |
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"Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the black market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha, who works on the island as a nanny and maid--having left her native Sri Lanka to try to earn enough to support her daughter, left behind and raised by relatives. But Nisha has vanished; one evening, she steps out on a mysterious errand and doesn't return. The police write off her disappearance as just another runaway domestic worker, so her employer, Petra, undertakes the investigation. Petra's unravelling of Nisha's last days in Cyprus lead her to Nisha's friends--other maids in the neighborhood--and to the darker side of a migrant's life, where impossible choices leave them vulnerable, captive, and worse. Based on the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyprus, Christy Lefteri has crafted a poignant, deeply empathetic narrative of the human stories behind the headlines."-- Provided by publisher.
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