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Laura Stanfill

    Laura Stanfill is the editor of the award-winning Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life. She is a novelist, an essayist, and the founder of Forest Avenue Press. Her work focuses on the craft and creative lives of writers.

    Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary
    • Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.9(215)Add rating

      Georges Blanchard is revered in the small French town of Mireville both as a master serinette maker and for a miraculous incident in his childhood that earned him the title "The Sun-Bringer." As his firstborn son, Henri Blanchard is expected to follow in his footsteps—but Henri would rather learn to make lace than music boxes.When Henri discovers a stash of American letters in his father’s drawer, he learns he's not the firstborn son of Georges Blanchard at all: Henri has an older half-brother born to one of Georges's American customers. When he crosses the ocean to encounter his half-brother at last, Henri discovers that there's an entire world beyond Mireville—and there may be a perfect place for him yet.

      Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary