Ptichnik ¿ 8

Kogda Dzheyn ispolnilos' pyatnadcat' let, mat' skazala, chto ne bylo nikakogo iskusstvennogo oplodotvoreniya i, na samom dele, u Dzheyn est' otec. Otec etot zhivet v YUzhnoy Ayove, tam zhe, gde zaberemenevshaya mat' brosila ego, sbezhav v N'yu-York. Togda Dzheyn prinimaet reshenie, kotoroe izmenit vsyu eyo zhizn' - ona sobiraet veshchi i uezzhaet v Ayovu. Zdes' okazhetsya, chto otec ne ochen'-to schastliv ot vnezapnogo vossoedineniya s docher'yu, no kogda Dzheyn soberetsya uzhe vozvrashchat'sya domoy, okazhetsya, chto eta dver' dlya neyo navsegda zakrylas'. I ona ostanetsya v Ayove. V bescvetnom krayu gruzovikov, tyurem, pyli i monokul'turnogo zemledeliya. Ona zakonchit samuyu skuchnuyu v zhizni shkolu, ustroitsya na samuyu skuchnuyu v mire rabotu i prigotovitsya k samoy skuchnoy v mire zhizni. Kto by znal, chto dolzhnost' kontrolera kachestva produkcii pticefabriki stanet spaseniem i ot skuki, i ot odinochestva.