48 pages 1 hour read

Margaret Verble

When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

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Essay Topics

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How does Two Feathers’s Indigenous heritage separate her from the other employees at Glendale Park? How does Verble position her identity as critical to solving the mystery of Dinah’s death?

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Consider the various narrative voices Verble features across the novel. What impact do these shifts from one narrator to the next within and between chapters have on the plot?

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How does the inclusion of animal narrators—such as the buffalo Adam and the brown bear Tom Noddy—impact the progression of the plot? What does the inclusion of these animal perspectives contribute to Verble’s thematic interest in Communication Between Human and Non-Human Beings?