{"product_id":"life-with-birds-bronwyn-rennex-9780645247978","title":"Life with Birds: a suburban lyric","description":"A luminous account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a war story about heroism or healing trauma, but an attempt to fill the gaps in a family story in the wake of the Vietnam War and re-animate a father never really known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife with Birds invests in the small scale, the domestic and the ordinary as an overlooked part of Australian military history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBronwyn Rennex has used whatever materials she could find in order to attempt to retrieve her father - family stories, love letters, legal documents, birds - and the gaps between these documents form perhaps the most important part of this story: a failure that describes a loss. Rather than describing her mother's grief at her father's death, Rennex uses love letters and her mother's written claim for a war widow's pension to map the shape of her mother's love and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in fragments and mixing speculation, imagination and guesswork, the narrative is personal, angry, political and also funny, balancing a desire for some form of testimony with a commitment to questioning how we talk about war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a poignant and compelling account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bronwyn Rennex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0645247979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780645247978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Upswell Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.48d","brand":"Bronwyn Rennex","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47473834918143,"sku":"9780645247978","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_62502c3d-d559-4389-84d1-4858fa9373a4.jpg?v=1762313211","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-with-birds-bronwyn-rennex-9780645247978","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}