{"product_id":"bird-girl-9781685137762","title":"Bird Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eRebekah Hunnicutt, a reclusive painter now living in Western Massachusetts is unexpectedly thrust into the art-world spotlight when a popular podcast identifies her as the young woman behind a decades-old art-world incident. In the 1970s, at the height of the Soho art scene, she was entangled with an ambitious artist who used her four-foot-long braid as material for his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe podcast's retelling of that episode turns her into a reluctant cause célébre, drawing curious visitors to the once-secret studio where she has quietly reworked the same seven canvases for forty years. Now she must decide whether to remain in the shadows or finally re-enter the New York art world, armed with the artwork that has consumed her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat unfolds lays bare the artistic power dynamics that shaped her youth and the ways a woman's image can be celebrated as muse only to be erased as an artist. Rebekah's journey between past and present illuminates the long personal consequences of that youthful artistic transaction and the cost of a single act of creation that wasn't entirely her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBird Girl\u003c\/em\u003e is a clear-eyed exploration of female visibility and erasure and the reclamation of a silenced voice through art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Duston Spear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Rose Writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685137762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpear, Duston:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Duston Spear is an exhibiting artist in NY with work in several museums' collections. Her work has long engaged questions of authorship, visibility, and power through socially engaged and activist practices. She worked with incarcerated women, teaching art, in a maximum-security prison for over twenty years before moving to a small village in Massachusetts. She recently moved into a 1840s house with a livery barn for her studio and office and goats in the backyard. After decades exhibiting her work, Bird Girl is her debut novel.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Duston Spear \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48791160357021,"sku":"9781685137762","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_cd050717-a89a-496f-b196-3de46dc86d72.jpg?v=1786549758","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/bird-girl-9781685137762","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}