Most people didn’t know they were down an alley, hidden behind a gate, and named for the tiny turquoise birds, dellowisps, that lived in the bushes. The Dellawisp Condos were in the only building on the island that survived when all the houses burned during the Civil War. She inherited it from her mother, and now that she’s eighteen and going to start college in Charleston in the fall, she’s moving there, leaving behind her father and his second family who never wanted her. Zoey Hennessey has high expectations for the tiny condo on Mallow Island, South Carolina.
All of those are magic in themselves, but Allen adds elements of magical realism.
Other Birds is a coming-of-age novel, a story of ghosts, a story of the past and hope. If you haven’t read Garden Spells or The Peach Keeper or any of her other books, you’ve missed the magic that is interspersed with everyday life, just accepted as part of it. They’re few and far between, and the rarity just adds to the magic that she puts into her books. Sarah Addison Allen’s novels are always magical.
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