Tina Ann Forkner

Winter Birds by Jamie Langston Turner--a retelling of the story of Ruth (as in the Old Testament), Winter Birds is about Sophia Hess, an older woman who moves in with her nephew and his wife so they can care for her. She asks for a room with a door she can close and bolt. Through the door, she listens to their conversations and their lives--when not watching daytime TV or the birds at her window.