Book Review: "I Am Twig, Feather, Bone"
- marthaengber
- May 11
- 1 min read
by Angie Athanassiades
I’ve read so much fiction and nonfiction in long book form that when I read this spare, poetic memoir, I AM TWIG, FEATHER, BONE by Angie Athanassiades, I felt I’d been lifted into the air. There I gradually transformed through some ethereal means that can only happen amidst the beautifully described setting of a quiet, isolated Greek island and a woman turning a serious eye upon nature as a means of healing her trauma.
The book’s language is absolutely stunning. In poetically painting the island — its birds, temple ruins, the sea, Rodin’s sketches of women and Greek mythology — the author ever so gradually draws readers to the incident that so changed her life, and from which she searches to reclaim herself: her body, identity and perspective on life.
The author seamlessly weaves the delicate with the brutal, the instinctual with the logical, ultimately demonstrating the power of art to heal our spirits.
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