Birds Migrating Through Me

1998 (Memoir - Novel)

"I’ve lived with all my mistakes, all that I’ve missed, managed to grab and obtain; I am now reasonably happy to be me, happy to be the way I am. I enjoy a strange sense of sagacity, power, and fortitude. A self-confidence I have ultimately succeeded in grasping."

That’s what İnci Aral says in Birds Migrating Through Me; at a turning point of a life lived to the full, with pain, sorrow and joy. A difficult time for women, a time they must face on their own: bodily and emotional changes, losses and transition into middle age, and the unknown. During this process of heightened emotional instability, the writer finds the opportunity to take count and face her own past. She examines her own life in a way that very few women would dare, openly, bravely, as she presents herself sincerely, honestly, and even mercilessly. This book stands as an epilogue to Dead Male Birds.