The Loop

About this book

Lyman a thirty-year-old orphan is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter" -- and a mysterious past. Convinced that heeding the birds wisdom will lead him to answers about himself he so desperately seeks Lyman combines his night job as a courtesy patrolman circling the highway that loops around Fort Worth with days in the library. Together with Fiona the loquacious librarian he traces his adopted pets origins and while what Lyman ultimately discovers may not help him piece together his own past it paves the way for a future he never imagined.