" This books is VERY strange, but unforgettable. It is about old childhood friends who have both gone to war and are meeting again under unfortunate circumstances, scarred and disfigured in their separate ways. The narrator, Alfonso, was the stronger, popular, sexually savvy of the two friends when they were younger, who had an abusive Italian father who left him with serious anger management issues. His bosum buddy turned estranged, freak-a-zoidal PTSD friend, calls himself Birdy. Birdy's childhood/adolescent dream, which he did everything to realize, was to fly, and eventually, to be a bird. "
— Nicki, 2/8/2014