Birdsong (novel) on how the novel, like many other WWI novels, thematically focuses on the way in which the experience of trauma shapes individual psyches. Similarly, because of the parallel narratives WWI and 1970s Britain, the novel explores metahistorical questions about how to document and recover narratives about the past. Because of its genre, themes and writing style, the novel has been favourably compared to a number of other war novels, like Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and those in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy. "Birdsong" is part of a loose trilogy of novels by Sebastian Faulks, alongside "The Girl at the Lion d'Or" and
Mia Birdsong Mia Birdsong Mia Birdsong is a family activist who advocates for the strengthening of communities and the self-determination of low-income people. She has been published in Slate, the Stanford Innovation Review, Salon, the Huffington Post, On Being, the Good Men Project and also recognized as one of the Colorlines‘ “15 Remarkable Women of Color Who Rocked 2015. Her 2015 TED talk, “The Story We Tell About Poverty Isn’t True,” has been viewed over 1.5 million times. Birdsong is co-director of Family Story, alongside Nicole Rodgers. Birdsong was vice president of Family Independence Initiative (FII). Mia Birdsong was raised in a