Featherless by A G Mojtabai Hardback Book 9781639821785

Plato famously defined a human being as a quotfeatherless bipedquot Its hard not to sense the ironic humor in this definition a reminder that for all our talk about human dignity our condition is contingent vulnerable and at some level even comicPerhaps thats why the writer AG Mojtabaiknown for her dry understated subtly humorous but ultimately honest and courageous depictions of the human conditionchose the name for her latest novel set in the confines of Shady Rest Home for the AgedMojtabai offers us a varied cast of characters at Shady Rest including Eli who fancies himself a ladies man Elora anxious about her wayward nephew the aloof but lonely scholar Wiktor and Maddie a bit eccentric true but more wise and compassionate than most At the center of it all is Daniel an old soul in a young mans body with a strange gift for caring for the elderlyFeatherlessampnbspis one of those rare books that brings us news from the final frontier the end of life Its unflinching but humane gazeinformed by the authors own experienceserves as a fitting capstone for a literary career of uncommon distinction