Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot
Here's the Robert Olen Butler story I was talkin' 'bout.
I, for one, think he pulls it off. It's not at all gimmicky in his use of a talking bird.
And, perhaps, the story works because there is a parrot in all of us--
--oh yes, I went there.
AH and one of my favorite books of all time lets you read a farm dog's mind for a paragraph or two--she doesn't talk, but her thoughts are anthropomorphized. I guess this'll be my recommendation: So Long, See You Tomorrow; by William Maxwell. I'd say it falls under the hypothetical memoir category. It's definitely a book for writers; there's super super deliberate craft going on EVERYWHERE.
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