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Praise for Accidentals

“A rich portrait of a country and its people, relayed with detail and wonder, thanks to a naturalist’s eye.”

—FOREWORD REVIEWS

“This is a novel that is, above all, about how seeing is an act of love. A profound and moving experience awaits the reader.”

—REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN, author of Plato at the Googleplex

“In clean, beautiful prose and with an environmental sensibility evocative of Stegner, Accidentals sings with the vibrancy of the living world … erudite and emotionally compelling, suffused with science and natural history.”

—CHRISTIAN KIEFER, author of Phantoms

“An intimate family story with an astonishingly epic scope. Alive with history, politics, science, romance, and birds, it is as entertaining as it is intelligent, as beautiful as it is wise. Gabe’s evolution from a passive observer to the passionate creator of his own destiny is a life-changing experience not only for him, but for readers as well.”

—JEAN HEGLAND, author of Still Time

“This is a novel about all the things we don’t yet know; all the things we know but keep hidden; and all the things we once knew but have lost. Gorgeous, smart, and surprising, this family saga takes us into the large world of nations and politics, but also the microscopic world of mud and microbes. Tender and powerful. Also with birds!”

—KAREN JOY FOWLER, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“As a conservation biologist, as well as an Uruguayan immigrant and mother of two first-generation Americans, I was as moved by the Quiroga family’s layers of history, secrets, and struggles around land, politics, and love, as I was intrigued by the beautiful depictions of birds and the musings on evolution and extinction. This is a novel I would like to share with my daughters someday!”

—ANA LUZ PORZECANSKI, Director of the Center for Biodiversity & Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History

“A captivating novel centered around love lost, regained, and fashioned anew, a mix of cultures, and efforts to reclaim land and heritage. All this against a backdrop of discovering and recording the lives of birds in the wild with forces human- and climate-driven pressing on their survival. Deeply moving and powerful.”

—SHERYL COTLEUR, Copperfield’s Books