Praise for Small Books
In praise of small books with big hearts and minds, I have begun collecting novellas that alter the shape of the world by inches, degrees, and so subtly readers barely realize they are standing on shifting earth. Max Porter’s Grief is a Think with Feathers is one of those little books that nudges and prods even as the reader tries to fall asleep and begins dreaming about surely crows, nonsensical, huge talking black birds whose foreign ideas begin to creep in like a Ted Hughe
