Michelle Edwards 
Go Away Birds 

Skye is looking for normal. She grew up different and it rankles. Home isn�t normal; her mom isn�t normal. Her brother, beloved as he is, isn�t quite normal, either. Her marriage was kind of normal (Cam is a wealthy, handsome man who�s nice enough) and now it�s a dumpster fire. And look at South Africa�entirely NOT normal. She�s got PTSD and she�s in mourning. She doesn�t know who she is or what she wants. She tries to anchor herself to tangible things: to her cooking, to her neighbour�s children, to sex. But as she relives her past and tries to plan her future, she feels increasingly dislocated. Skye escapes when things get overwhelming, and realises almost too late that she�s about to make everything worse.