The Boy, the Bird & the Coffin Maker
Alberto lives alone in the town of Allora, where fish fly out of the sea and the houses shine like jewels. He is a coffin maker and widower, spending his quiet days creating the final resting places of Allora's people.
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This was cute and charming and I should have loved it, but I didn't. I think it's because it was trying to be too many things at once. It's a story about family, and what family means. It's a story about a village, it's a story within a story about a magical place...it goes a bit Pan's Labyrinth there for awhile.
It was just too much. It's not a bad read, at all, it's just scattered.
Side note (and this does not affect the review at all): I can't stand book titles that are lists. I think The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe has that covered already and anyone who has every watched a patron struggle to remember the name of a book Angus? Thongs? Big Things? So, I'm not a big fan of lists as titles.
