City of Night Birds

If you are fascinated by the complicated world of ballet, this is exactly the book for you. In a seamless story woven alongside the symmetry of Giselle, the most talented prima ballerina in the world finally transcends the mastery of her dance into the world of real emotions and pain. Like many prodigies, Natalia is consumed by the pursuit of perfection in her ballet technique. Natalia’s world is measured by rising from the corps de ballet into solo work and accompanying acclaim.

Natalia has loving and supportive friends who travel with her to achieve technical competence, but Natalia works harder and longer, single-mindedly perfecting her dominance in the world of ballet. And, of course, ballet becomes her entire world and raison d’être. For this reason, it becomes much too late to have a family or connect with her mother and long-absent father. As the world of ballet has kept her insulated from real life, as she ages out of star status, she faces her world as she has made it.