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“They fly and fly until there’s no more ocean to fly over” — a review of the book “Shearwater”

10,000 Birds

Sixty or so days later, they fledge and, with no guidance from their parents, take off across the Atlantic – the equivalent, Morgan-Greenville says, of a four-month-old human baby “walking out of the house to make its own way in the world.” But human beings are not uniformly evil.