02389cam a2200433 i 4500 497568920 TxAuBib 20210324120000.0 210301s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593129005 paperback 0593129008 paperback (OCoLC)1240170575 TxAuBib rda Jimenez, Simon, 1989- The vanished birds / Simon Jimenez. 2021 Del Rey Trade paperback edition. New York : Del Rey, 2021. 390 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays from an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs, and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in one another the things they lacked. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside herself. For the both of them, a family. But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart"-- Provided by publisher. 20210324. Interstellar travel Fiction. Time dilatation Fiction. Fear Fiction. Single women Fiction. Loneliness Fiction. Families Fiction. Selective mutism Fiction. Time travel Fiction. Science fiction. Fiction. Science fiction. Time-travel fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Time-travel fiction. Jimenez, Simon, 1989-, First edition.