The Birds of Opulence (Wilkinson)
Crystal Wilkinson. The Birds of Opulence. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. 208 pages. Hardcover. $24.95. Crystal Wilkinson’s new novel The Birds of Opulence opens with this passage: “Imagine a tree, a bird in the tree, the hills, the creek, a possum, the dog chasing the possum. Imagine yourself…