![]() ![]() ST lives with Big Jim and a lop-eared bloodhound named Dennis. ST was taken in as a fledgling by Big Jim, a beer-swilling, Cheeto-loving guy who lives in a Craftsman home in a Seattle neighborhood. Without giving too much away, Hollow Kingdom is the story, or fable, of a crow named ST, and the world in which he finds himself, a world changing in the most dangerous and macabre dimensions. Now, two months into the Covid19 stay at home orders, I would scrap the above paragraph and simply recommend, before reading Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom, go online and Google T. ![]() Those introductory words to my review of Hollow Kingdom were written in November 2019 and published in the Concord Clayton Pioneer in December 2019. In novels, they don’t if you find birds and beasts talking in a book you are reading you can be sure it is not a novel.” It is called a novel, but I still adhere to Mary McCarthy’s caveat from The Fact in Fiction, “In fables and fairy tales, as everyone knows, birds and beasts talk. Are you a nature lover? A hiker? A botanist? A stargazer? A bird watcher? If so, please consider Kira Jane Buxton’s debut book, Hollow Kingdom. ![]()
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