Sweet story about finding ourselves
IF Birds Fly Back is a love story about leaving, coming back and being there all along.
An honest tale of realistic proportions, a cute budding filmmaker and self-proclaimed astrophysics nerd as told by Carlie Sorosiak. This is a quirky book that will have the reader hooked from the first page.
Switching between Sebastian and Linny this story is told through two very different characters who are both chasing the same answers. The question: “why do people leave?” and more importantly “what makes them return?”
As Linny desperately tries to answer these questions herself she fixates on missing person’s cases where they decide to return home again – sometimes after several years.
Alvaro Herrera becomes her sole focus when, after being assumed dead, he pops up in her local town and checks into the nursing home she is volunteering at for the summer. She makes it her mission to find out exactly what triggered his reappearance as she has a very big interest in the reason.
Linny’s sister Grace left her behind when she disappeared out her bedroom window taking all the colour of life with her. Grace didn’t leave a note for her parents but instead left it to her sister. The note saying - “I just have to get away for a while, okay? Feed Hector 4-5 times a week, pls.” No explanation, just that, leaving Linny to pick up the pieces of her family and their broken hearts.
As Alvaro Herrera is the main character in Linny’s quest for answers he soon becomes her motivation for her film application to UCLA. He is not only the star of Linny’s world, however.
Sebastian has always wondered who his father is. His mother would never give him a straight answer when he asked and so left to his own devices he created multiple scenarios of what type of person his father was.
That is until his father pops up in Silver Springs and his mother spills the beans that Alvaro Herrera,
❝relationships The story creates magical and truly shows how love is what happens when you’re looking for something else.
the famous writer previously assumed dead, is in fact Sebastian’s father.
Sebastian decides he is going to find out everything he can about the father he never knew and makes the trip to Silver Springs. He volunteers at the very same nursing home as Linny in order to get close to Alvaro.
Carlie Sorosiak paints a sweet and somewhat sad story about losing loved ones and finding ourselves. The story creates magical relationships and truly shows how love is what happens when you’re looking for something else.