TIM. DEAL
Description
Fenster Hatch sees things. Wild, seemingly mythic images of life, nature, and magic. His doctors attribute these visions to a traumatic wartime injury
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to his brain, but Fenster can't be sure anymore. In seeking sanctuary in smalltown Walker Mills, New Hampshire, he encounters free-spirited Greta, who's doing her best to live a life full of her own magic, scheming Diane from one of the town's most influential families, and Drew, a car crash of a personality trying to escape an irredeemable past. As he collides with these characters, Fenster struggles to make sense of their interactions, and reason for his surreal life. The result is a grim odyssey filled with wildly inventive characters, adventure, and the hope for redemption. ***
In "King of Birds," Tim Deal expertly explores the life of Fenster Hatch, an army veteran contending with traumatic brain injury against the backdrop of a small New Hampshire town. As Hatch contends with the haunting specter of his past and tries to cope with the unsettling hallucinations plaguing his mind, Deal adeptly maneuvers through the complexities of his protagonist's psyche, crafting a moving depiction of a man on the verge of despair. Through vivid prose and meticulous attention to detail, Deal captures the disturbing and sometimes terrifying hallucinatory episodes Hatch experiences when he neglects his medication. He seamlessly weaves Hatch's present-day struggles with flashbacks to the 1989 invasion of Panama, where Hatch suffered the injury partially responsible for his current condition. --USA Today bestselling author Kelly Stone Gamble
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