Cupido Cupido
a novel
PEN/Bellwether Finalist
NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
Henry Zarlis has lived on a remote hilltop in Hale Creek, Kentucky longer than he ever lived in Indonesia. After he breaks his arm in an untimely woodworking accident, his children decide that Henry can no longer manage the work of running a homestead on his own, and that Henry’s grandson, nicknamed Egg, will spend his summer vacation working to get the property ready to sell.
What Egg didn’t expect was to find the house already empty of memorabilia, of anything that predates the birth of his mother, except for a single stack of letters written in a language he cannot read dating from the 1950s and 60s. Nor did he expect to make the bewildering discovery of a bird thought to have gone extinct in the 1930’s living at the base of his grandfather’s hill. This startling encounter draws a biologist and her team to the property just as Henry’s family is planning to remove him from his homeplace of more than fifty years.
★★★★★ Cupido Cupido tackles two of the more contentious subjects of our time—species extinction and immigration—and confronts them with compassion and curiosity.
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