Generations from the Roux family members have discovered this lesson the hard method. Foolish love appears to be the family members birthright, actually, which casts an ominous fate for its latest progeny: twins Ava and Henry Lavender. Henry is usually mute for a lot of his youthful life, and Ava – in every other ways a standard girl-is born using the wings of a bird. In a quest to comprehend her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year-old Ava delves into her family’s recent and ventures in to the wider world, ill prepared for what she might discover and naive towards the twisted motives of others. Others just like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her develops until the nights the summertime solstice celebration. That night time, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill up the air, and both Ava’s quest and her family’s saga build to a dark and heartbreaking crescendo. First-time writer Leslye Walton provides constructed a split and haunting mythology of what it means to be blessed with a heart that’s tragically, exquisitely human.