When I was a child, I would have looked you in the eye and told you I wanted to be a bird when I grew up.
Where Birds Go to Die is a story of persistence, faith, and the exploration of the complexity and beauty of the human soul..
Despite such disheartening odds, Benjamin, Abra, and their friend Enoch are determined to cling to their humanity as their humanity is reduced to ashes.
Together in an abandoned attic, they create a hidden world to preserve their childhood and keep their dreams, humor, talents, and love alive.
With the death of their father and the disappearance of their mother, sixteen-year-old Benjamin is forced to take care of his little sister on his own.
Life is twisted unexpectedly when, one November night in Vienna, Jewish shops, synagogues, and homes are burned by the Schutzstaffel.
Abra\'s audacity, frankness, and strong sense of justice often put her family at risk, to the unease of her elder brother, Benjamin, who understands the rising intensity of their world under Nazi occupation better than she.
The world is a marvelous place for a young Hebrew girl with a burgeoning imagination.
We clothed ourselves with imagination as with immortality...
Worlds were made and forgotten to come and go and use as we pleased, Where life was normal.
Life passed with every fleeting imagination then, every absurd thought that entertained our masterminds.
It was every child\'s dream at that time to be anything they weren\'t.
When I was a child, I would have looked you in the eye and told you I wanted to be a bird when I grew up
