Review
From the book jacket: From the moment
that he looks down on the ancient gray head of
Noah, who is swinging his stone axe, the
narrating crow in this unique and remarkable
epic knows that these creators called Man are
trouble. He senses, too, that the natural order
of things is about to change. At a time when so
many of us are searching for meaning, Layne
Maheu’s debut novel lingers in a masterfully
rendered ancient world just long enough to
ponder our fears of disaster and to watch as
humanity struggles to survive, to understand,
and finally to prevail.
Comment: Song of the Crow is a very difficult book to
describe. On one level it's simply the story of
Noah's Ark told through the...
Beyond the Book
When asked why he wrote
Song of the Crow,
Layne Maheu replies, "One of my
imaginary selves has
always been a biologist.
Perhaps in a former
lifetime I was a
nineteenth century
naturalist. The closest
I’d ever come to
realizing that fantasy,
though, is by bird
watching. Quickly I
found that merely seeing
and identifying bird
species was only a part
of it. I was interested
in bird behavior. So, I
looked over the
bookstore shelves and
right away found two...
