Children of the Air

Two eagles awake to a rumble of thunder or rather a helicopter that hovers overhead. While mama eagle flees papa defends their eggs but is eaten or rather captured by the insectile monster leaving mama to raise three eaglets by herself.Mary feels a similar loss and stress but abandonment is a different kind of monster. To worsen matters her teenage daughter Lissy is surlier than most eaglets so when Marys father Ed dislocates a hip the idea of sending Lissy to assist him seems to kill two birds until she discovers hes already taken on a helper--a runaway boy with a wounded owl. Reluctantly she leaves Lissy with him anyway.Youll like Eds dog Shep.This is not a whimsical tale but an illustration of the banality of evil the impotence of good and the persistent nagging suspicion that the world makes a beautiful kind of sense all the same.