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BOOK REVIEW

‘Birds of a Lesser Paradise’ by Megan Mayhew Bergman

By Joseph Peschel

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 07, 2012

Megan Mayhew Bergman is a top-notch emerging writer, originally from North Carolina, now living in Vermont. In Bergman’s first book, a collection of a dozen stories, she portrays, in fine realistic prose, female characters balancing relationships with their fathers, mothers, and partners, as they fight their own foibles and insecurities. Bergman’s stories take place mostly in the South, but no matter the locale or the humans involved, there’s always an animal of some sort that influences her character’s lives.

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