Bird Bones
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And I'm hollow. I'm hollow like a bird bone - Cat Clyde.
Eilee Fellows returns to Colorado with her family for their annual summer stay in the mountains. Feeling estranged from her family after her first year of college, Eilee finds herself drawn to the older man next door, reclusive and quiet, who helps her find solace in nature, the only place where Eilee feels truly weightless. In their search for the rapidly declining Rosy Finch, they must face their own embodiment and the ache to be free.
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