"In The Vanished Birds, Earth becomes uninhabitable and humankind spreads out into space using technology that is all of our capitalist, designer-baby, smart-everything, social-media-age fears realized. But this new world is also beautifully poetic--enormous space stations have been designed to mimic specific birds but have outlived their namesakes for lifetimes. I am dizzied by this world Jimenez has created and the characters that live in it. I find myself thinking about Nia and the people in her orbit--their thoughts, their motives, their choices--and going over mistakes and minutiae as if they were my own. This is literary science fiction at its most effective and affective."
--Samantha Tovey, Tattered Cover Book Store, Denver, CO