Go Away Birds — Michelle Edwards

Skye is looking for normal. She grew up different and it rankles. Home isn t normal; her mom isn t normal. Her brother, beloved as he is, isn t quite normal, either. Her marriage was kind of normal (Cam is a wealthy, handsome man who s nice enough) and now it s a dumpster fire. And look at South Africa entirely NOT normal. She s got PTSD and she s in mourning. She doesn t know who she is or what she wants. She tries to anchor herself to tangible things: to her cooking, to her neighbour s children, to sex. But as she relives her past and tries to plan her future, she feels increasingly dislocated. Skye escapes when things get overwhelming, and realises almost too late that she s about to make everything worse.