Birding in the Face of Terror began as a short story completed a few months after 9/11/01, with little beyond a journalistic account of the events on and around the bus trip with the American Birders Association to the three sites we visited. Upon finishing it, I knew there was an avalanche of related material and many thousands of words left unsaid, so I started expanding it into a novel. But sometime in mid-2002, my efforts hit a major psychological wall, and the project went on the shelf, not to be picked up again until 2009.
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Birding — Pedro and Nadia
As many of you know or might guess after reading it, both narrators, Joseph and Pedro, are based on “JP’, my actual civilian name. But Pedro is the main vehicle for the semi-autobiographical aspect of the novel. Likewise, the character of Nadia Czonka is a depiction of my first wife, Aubray Tomkinson. We were “exuberantlyContinue reading “Birding — Pedro and Nadia”
Not One, Not Two 