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Books
What birds can only
whisper by Julie Brickman
Kendra Quillan is the leader of Survivors, a feminist/dyke band in Toronto poised for success. Her Ice Maiden mystique and guitar savvy are central to the band's musical success and her own persona, but her world begins to shatter when she wakes up beside the first lover she's had in a decade and wants to kill him. Although the rest of the band has their own problems--Baker plays AIDS roulette with pick-ups, while Lena and Angel are looking for the right way to add a baby to their loving partnership--Kendra has to find out why she loves and hates Axel, a gentle environmentalist, and why she can't remember their times in bed. What birds can only whisper is an engrossing novel about one woman's journey from imminent career success back into her past to confront her childhood. With the help of her lover and her friends in the band, she pieces together the puzzle of her past, a process that can lead to freedom or the brink of madness. A clear and healing voice in the controversy about recovered memory and childhood sexual abuse. "This book is dedicated to the silenced inside us all." Cross-Canada Book Tour
To purchase from Amazon, click here. "Bold is too
heartless a word for Julie Brickman's stunning first
novel: brave. Fresh is too tame for her
sizzling style--try spectacular. This novel takes
us to the post-trauma depths of the psyche; it's like
being in a submarine whose searchlight makes us gasp at
never-before-seen crevasses, life-forms, seams of
fire--terrible and beautiful." "Ever since Julie
Brickman brought her piece, Penis Blues, to my
workshop, I knew she was a writer to watch. A zippy new
voice."
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