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Chapter narrators alternate between a homing pigeon and a soldier whose futures intersect in the most terrible of war offensives in France.
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The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
In the Gulf of Mexico—or the Gulf of America, as it’s now known—a homing pigeon flew into the ship’s bridge.
—Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
In the project, da Costa outfitted homing pigeons with sensors to collect data on air quality.
—Matt Shaw, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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The Know, Denver Post, 19 Oct. 2025
In the Gulf of Mexico—or the Gulf of America, as it’s now known—a homing pigeon flew into the ship’s bridge.
—Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
In the project, da Costa outfitted homing pigeons with sensors to collect data on air quality.
—Matt Shaw, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Like his late father’s homing pigeons who keep returning to their shabby rooftop coop — a holding-pattern image that echoes the ennui of Terry Malloy on a very different waterfront — he’s imprisoned by the limits of his knowledge, the petrified loop of his experience.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Feb. 2025
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“Homing pigeon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homing%20pigeon. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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