


Relationship to relationship, home to home.

Moore's own characters - lost, lonely people fumbling their way through life, banging their heads against walls, their hearts against old sorrows, as they migrate from Those poor feathered creatures, of course, are stand-ins for Ms. Alone, as people live, they would crash their heads against walls." Kind of group-life, a recognizable intelligence no doubt in its random flutters there were patterns, but alone any one of those black birds would not have known what was up. N one of Lorrie Moore's earlier books, a character describes a flock of birds: "From four blocks away, I could see that the flock had a SeptemBOOKS OF THE TIMES 'Birds of America': And What Have They Done With Their Lives? By MICHIKO KAKUTANI 'Birds of America': And What Have They Done With Their Lives?
