The Chestnut-Sided Warbler: And Other Essays

By Sally Cole

This collection of essays is drawn from some thirty years of writing about a variety of topics: road trips, bird strikes, language, loss, illness, music, soccer, coffee, religion (and the lack thereof), the desert, and of course New Orleans, the city I both love and hate, can't live in but can't live without. They are narrative, meditative, academic, and sometimes just flashes, brought on by an action as simple as the neighbor's lawn man blowing clippings into the street or as shocking as a meth-addict's burning down my house. They are my way of documenting what I have done and what's been done to me, both my rotten luck and my sweet survival-sixty-seven years and counting-in a world that still fuels my impulse to write.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1530600545
• ISBN13: 9781530600540
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.3"