The Serendipity of Flightless Things
(eAudiobook)

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Recorded Books, Inc., 2019.
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7h 1m 0s
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eAudiobook
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English
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9781980044291

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Fiadhnait Moser., Fiadhnait Moser|AUTHOR., & Heather O'Neill|READER. (2019). The Serendipity of Flightless Things . Recorded Books, Inc..

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Fiadhnait Moser, Fiadhnait Moser|AUTHOR and Heather O'Neill|READER. 2019. The Serendipity of Flightless Things. Recorded Books, Inc.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Fiadhnait Moser, Fiadhnait Moser|AUTHOR and Heather O'Neill|READER. The Serendipity of Flightless Things Recorded Books, Inc, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Fiadhnait Moser, Fiadhnait Moser|AUTHOR, and Heather O'Neill|READER. The Serendipity of Flightless Things Recorded Books, Inc., 2019.

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Raised by her grandmother, Nuala, who is the village storyteller, Finn spends her days playing make-believe in the forest, weaving tall tales to tell her friend, Darcy, longing to go to the island of Inis Eala to meet the swans there, and waiting for her father to return from the war. She's long since stopped believing in happy endings and miracles, preferring to believe instead in serendipity, or “happy mistakes.”

While Nuala revels in the safety and routine of their quiet village life, spunky Finn craves adventure...something that comes to her more quickly than expected. When Darcy becomes lost at sea and Nuala suddenly passes away, Finn is shipped off to the affluent town of Starlight Valley, Virginia, to live with her long-lost mother, Aoife, and half-sister, Posy-Kate. Finn is initially excited to get to know her newfound family, but she can't help but notice that things are a bit unusual.

The town is encircled by thorn trees, and even stranger is Aoife's house, where the walls are covered with swan feathers and decorated with swan heads, and Aoife's shoes appear to be made out of swan bills. Finn tries to ignore the sinking feeling that something isn't right, but she starts to believe that what's happening isn't random. Instead, it's taken directly from one of her grandmother's famous folktales, The Children of Lir, where a scorned mother turns all of her children into swans. But Finn stopped believing in those stories a long time ago...could they actually be true?
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