Praise for Birds of a Feather, winner of the Reader's View Bronze Award in the LGBTQ+ category: "Birkmyer's prose is wonderfully voiced and imaginatively detailed." -Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Marcela's Army: "A profound yet gentle novel that addresses childhood trauma with honesty and care." -Independent Book Review
Maiden Voyage, Book Three of Daphne Birkmyer's COMFREY, WYOMING series, finds twins, Amadeus and Marcela, on very different paths to self-discovery. As their guardian, Heidi Crow, attempts to weave a safety net as original and complex as the twins themselves, she prays it will hold through Marcela's gender affirming surgery and Amadeus's uncertain future in Alaska's lucrative and dangerous fishing industry.
A richly diverse cast, including a Shakespeare-quoting street basketball player and a Chinese purveyor of pu-erh tea, joins characters already beloved by readers of the series in this transcendent tale of nontraditional family and steadfast friends.
