Book #87: The Painted Bird

Almost every novel on the Time list is dark in some way. Some more than others, of course, but they all have that element of darkness. None of them, though, reach the level of The Painted Bird. This novel, y’all, it’s brutal. Imagine a 6-year-old Jewish kid, abandoned by his parents, witnessing a gauntlet of […]

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