Hollow Kingdom

I don't know why I've read two post-apocalyptic novels set from the point-of-view of a crow in the past couple years but they were both amazing so I'm not complaining, just, this is an oddly specific genre. This is like [b:Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr 34466930 Ka Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr John Crowley https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1508662187l/34466930.SX50.jpg 55587006] but by way of [b:Station Eleven 20170404 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1451446835l/20170404.SY75.jpg 28098716]. Starts out a little gruesome, but like Station Eleven it's more of an elegy than a horror novel – oddly hopeful, at times funny, and with some surprisingly deep things to say about cross-cultural identity and the meaning of life and our (humanity's) relationship to the natural world.