The Bird House
Kelly Simmons

Interweaving diaries penned forty years apart‚ The Bird House blends the fierce voice of a woman struggling against dementia to bond with her only grandchild‚ with her point of view as a young wife and mother. We witness the secrets of Ann Biddle’s family through every lens: from the clarity of the rear view mirror‚ through the haze of Alzheimer’s‚ and as a young housewife in 1960s suburbia grappling with illness‚ death‚ heartbreak and tragedy.‘Simmons’s second novel is a great title for book groups that enjoy fiction with strong female characters’ – Library Journal