Birdgirl

Maybe you already know the author of this book. After all, she is the youngest British woman in history to be awarded an Honorary Doctorate (at age seventeen) and in 2020 she organized one of the largest global climate change strikes of all time. She is therefore an activist and environmentalist whose will and strength are achieving what so many of us feel is necessary: acting with absolute passion to change things. So this book is about birds and ecology, but also about politics and society, about caregiving and mental illness, about the infamous white patriarchy and about the inspiring vision of indigenous peoples. You can read it as the wise memoirs of a young woman, but also as an exciting travel story or an ornithological guide. In it you will find the story of Mya-Rose and her family, her journeys around the world in search of all kinds of birds (each of which gives her, since she was a child, a moment of amazement, happiness and gratitude) and landscapes. of overwhelming beauty. However, all beauty has its shadow and wisdom consists precisely in welcoming it. For the Craigs, this darkness is linked, on the one hand, to the mental illness of Mya-Rose's mother, against which the birds come to the rescue: connecting from the depths with these winged beings means already beginning to heal; On the other hand, with direct knowledge of the devastating damage that our society inflicts both on ecosystems and on the vast majority of indigenous, black and racialized people, among whom is the author herself. And thus learn to rebel and fight.