Bob

Bob is barely six weeks old and hungry enough to shriek. When breakfast finally comes, he carries every bite to the weaker bird in his cage.

In a Georgia household beneath towering pines, a fallen nestling arrives with no nest to return to and hawks waiting in the trees. Sidney Lanier’s family takes Bob in, though they have always thought caging a bird a kind of crime; soon the young mockingbird repays their care with a voice, a will, and acts of gallantry that invite comparisons to Sir Philip Sidney, Don Quixote, and Shakespeare. Lanier watches with a poet’s delight and a naturalist’s eye, even as Bob’s confinement raises a harder question: can a bird born to sing in the wild make a home behind bars?

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