The Avian Hourglass

""A speculative novel told in fragments peels back the surface of a small town’s reality ... this spare and striking novel is what comes next.""—Kirkus Reviews ""Depending on the reader, The Avian Hourglass is a book that one could spend a couple days with or a couple years and still be satisfied or unsatisfied depending on their wont. However far down the rabbit hole the reader wants to go, Drager’s is a novel of surreal literary fiction that opens gateways to a world in which the reader can reflect, indefinitely, on many aspects of their own life."" —Independent Book Review, starred review ""It would be easy to describe The Avian Hourglass as 'haunting' or even 'dystopian,' but neither of those words reflects the vastness of the longing that runs through it. This novel taps into a primordial solitude and its accompanying yearning...The Avian Hourglass is a splendid novel in which many of us will find ourselves, our obsessions, our lonelinesses, and even our sense of wonder.""—BookBrowse ""At times, these musings are arresting—at others confusing—but perhaps all the more powerful for it. All in all, The Avian Hourglass is a compelling, intellectual, and emotionally-charged take on climate fiction."" —Sinister Wisdom ""Drager is adept at creating worlds that differ deeply from ours yet are consistent and engaging, demonstrating her substantial literary talents."" —Pop Matters ""The Avian Hourglass is splendidly odd and arresting. Drager establishes her themes of loss and duplication and catastrophe and estrangement and connection and sends them orbiting perfectly around each other, round after round, in an orrery of grieving and wonder."" —Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations and The Illumination ""Drager’s The Avian Hourglass has the mingled timbre of Redonnet & Brautigan: lucid, injured, hope-drunk. It parcels out the world in queries."" —Jesse Ball, author of Census and The Divers' Game