Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

I am overjoyed that I happened upon Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin at my library. A book about hope, grief, a deep dive into birds, more specifically crows in the Pacific Northwest proved to be a total delight!

Synopsis for Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hope, healing, and unexpected friendship set amidst the wild natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

Frankie O’Neill and Anne Ryan would seem to have nothing in common. Frankie is a lonely ornithologist struggling to salvage her dissertation on the spotted owl following a rift with her advisor. Anne is an Irish musician far from home and family, raising her five-year-old, Aiden, who refuses to speak.

At Beauty Bay, a community of summer homes nestled on the shores of June Lake, in the remote foothills of Mount Adams, it’s off-season with most houses shuttered for the fall. But Frankie, adrift, returns to the rundown caretaker’s cottage that has been in the hardworking O’Neill family for generations—a beloved place and a constant reminder of the family she has lost. And Anne, in the wake of a tragedy that has disrupted her career and silenced her music, has fled to the neighboring house, a showy summer home owned by her husband’s wealthy family.

When Frankie finds an injured baby crow in the forest, little does she realize that the charming bird will bring all three lost souls—Frankie, Anne, and Aiden—together on a journey toward hope, healing, and rediscovering joy. Crow Talk is an achingly beautiful story of love, grief, friendship, and the healing power of nature in the darkest of times.

Book Review: Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

There’s something about me you should know. I am a sucker for a fiction book with niche interests. Have a main character who is a specialst in a rare art form? I’m in! Have a setting where the characters speak a very specific and little know dialect? Put it on my TBR! Want to talk about birds at length and make me look at crows in an entire new light? I’ll gladly take it!

Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin centers around the grief of its two main characters. Of course, I love a story with grief! We meet each woman at a point in their lives where they really need something to change. They’re both stuck in completely different ways and they meet each other at the perfect time – able to help one another without completely realizing the wonderful support they’re providing their new friend.

This story is complete with a lush Pacific Northwest setting and a wonderful cast of side characters. I want to return to June Lake as I can picture it and all the residents in my mind. Every once in a while I meet a book that really knocks me off my feet and this is one of those books!

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The Verdict

I am Really Into This book. I already have Eileen’s previous book, The Music of Bees on my TBR.