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In the summer of 2018, “The Birds of Opulence” was included in Book Benches: A Tribute to Kentucky Authors. Mark Cornelison | UK Photo.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 6, 2021) University Press of Kentucky author Crystal Wilkinson s novel, The Birds of Opulence, has been selected by Kentucky Humanities for the 2021 Kentucky Reads.
The novel will be at the center of statewide conversations on the dynamics of family and community, the strength of women and stigmas surrounding mental illness. Kentucky Reads will offer 25 scholar-led discussions of “The Birds of Opulence” to community organizations throughout the Commonwealth.
“Mental illness continues to be one of our greatest societal ills and the stigma surrounding it is as concerning as the disease itself,” Wilkinson, an associate professor in the Department of English in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, explained. “It gives me great hope that communities all over the state will read the novel and use it as a cataly