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Birds of Paradise has two books wrestling within it. One is completely successful, while the other has moments of brilliance, but also a few more problems. Oliver K. Langmead has written a swooping, poetic novel that meditates on ecology and human’s responsibility to our home, that is also, at times, a bumpy road novel.
Birds of Paradise gives us breathtaking passages about love, and heartfelt descriptions of natural beauty, and wraps them up in a battle between nigh-immortal beings, and grasping, grubby humans.
But before we get into the book’s larger philosophical concerns, have some plot: Adam, the First Man, has been living a series of lives as immortals must: he lives as an adult, working a job, until it become weird that he doesn’t age. Then he moves on to the next town, or continent. He has walked most of the Earth by the time we meet him. In this latest life he uses his unusual bulk and strength to work as. celebrity bodyguard until he runs into some legal trouble, a
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