This book goes a bunch of unexpected places. Nominally about a woman whose husband dies, the man who has been promoting himself as a great naturalist when she does all the work (and the only way she can get her work out there). He has some “friends” (one in the more-than-friends sense) who become her friends. There’s a background of Arctic exploration and old New York City. And wonderful birds, many of them, and a small bit of magic. Memorable, miss it already.