**Longlisted for the 2026 Reading the West AwardsA charming and moving debut memoir about how a man with a mystery illness saves a pigeon, and how the pigeon saves the man.“I loved every page of this book: funny, sad, romantic, and full of pigeons.”—Sy Montgomery**On a spring evening in Montana, Brian Buckbee encounters an injured baby pigeon. Heartbroken after the loss of the love of his life and increasingly isolated by a mysterious illness that overtook him while...

“A sparkling example of the best kind of first-person storytelling in that its specificity succeeds in revealing universal truths…An extraordinary story full of humanity and life lessons from a man whose disability has largely removed him from society.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)A charming and moving debut memoir about how a man with a mystery illness saves a pigeon, and how the pigeon saves the man.Featuring an exclu...