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Dancing with Crows is a tale of love, loss and redemption. As Laila navigates her way through college and a rollercoaster relationship with Adam, she finds there are some demons she must face. Following her heart, she travels to Cape Cod, where she finds more than she bargained for.

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Morrissey once said that writing the Smiths' songs was like unleashing his diary on the world. A diary turned into art: that is what one discovers all along Baird's novel. How this is done is most peculiar and rather enticing: metaphor, violence, despair, and a dispersed, walking-wounded identity. The first person narrator, from the very beginning, seeks to bring together what keeps exploding and refusing to be: a sexual stability, love, affection, film-making, friendship, a semblance of family relation, self-integrity - all to no avail. As she fails, she grasps unto what can give her a hold on things: metaphor. The book is so filled with metaphors that the latter go so far as to be at times totally divorced from what they are trying to bring to a certain comprehension inside a certain closure, for some semblance of control. The reader drowns, along with the narrator, into images which lead him on numerous trips - but where to? That remains a secret, much like all personal identity is. Review by Professor Frank Darwiche

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Gayle is a writer and artist based in Edinburgh, Scotland. She achieved her BA in Drama at Exeter University and an MFA in Film Directing at Edinburgh College of Art. She has worked in theatre, film and illustration. Gayle studied shamanism with shamans from Brazil, France and the UK and spent time healing with the Shipibo-Conibo shamans of Peru. She is passionate about the transformative power of storytelling. Dancing with Crows is her first novel.

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