![]() ![]() Observant, wise, and witty, Cher Ami tells her story from within a glass case at the Smithsonian, explaining that she didn't mind having a male name, given her love for other females. Fluent in the most gruesome of facts, the most subtle of feelings, and the most compassionate of speculations, Rooney gives voice to bird and man, each a misfit. ![]() Here Rooney brings forward with bravura empathy and preternatural detail two WWI heroes, two battered survivors of a horrific military debacle: Cher Ami, a conscripted British homing pigeon who saved the so-called Lost Battalion, and American Charles White "Whit" Whittlesey, the officer in charge. An imaginative and audacious biographically inspired storyteller, Rooney portrayed poet and artist Weldon Kees in Robinson Alone (2012) and ad writer and poet Margaret Fishback in Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk (2017). ![]()
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