"bird" is funny and silly and a little weird. But it's also evocative and honest. "bird" points out the brutal truth of funerals: we all want to be the most proper, do things the correct way, we want to be right. But it's a bird, not a pigeon but some sort of bird and that shouldn't matter. Even beyond Gad's beautifully sparse language, a truly shocking amount of beauty in only nine pages, "bird" is beautiful because while the story is clear the way it is told is not yet. And that invitation truly feels like art.
"bird" is funny and silly and a little weird. But it's also evocative and honest. "bird" points out the brutal truth of funerals: we all want to be the most proper, do things the correct way, we want to be right. But it's a bird, not a pigeon but some sort of bird and that shouldn't matter. Even beyond Gad's beautifully sparse language, a truly shocking amount of beauty in only nine pages, "bird" is beautiful because while the story is clear the way it is told is not yet. And that invitation truly feels like art.