Flapping Eagle, a Native American man granted immortality by a mysterious elixir, wanders the earth for centuries before following his equally immortal sister's trail to Calf Island, a fantastical, dimension-bending land ruled by the reclusive, godlike Grimus, whose power over reality and the island's inhabitants Flapping Eagle must ultimately confront.
Books mentioned in Grimus (3)
The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar: Epigraph, credited as "FARID-UD-DIN 'ATTAR, The Conference of the Birds, trans. Fitzgerald": "Come, you lost atoms, to your Centre draw..."
Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot: Epigraph credited to T. S. Eliot: "Go, go, go, said the bird; human kind / Cannot bear very much reality." (also named directly in the acknowledgments as "The Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot: Collected Poems 1909-1962")
Crow by Ted Hughes: Epigraph credited "(TED HUGHES, "Crow's Playmates")", with the source collection named in the acknowledgments: "from 'Crow's Playmates,' Ted Hughes: Crow"