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Hummingbird Salamander

The intriguing opening of Jeff VanderMeer’s eco-thriller leads to an unraveling, deadly mystery.

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Review of ‘Hummingbird Salamander’

In Jeff VanderMeer’s eco-thriller Hummingbird Salamander, security analyst Jane Smith receives an envelope containing a key and a short list of animals. The contents of the envelope seem to be random, but Jane investigates them anyway and ends up at a storage unit where she finds a taxidermied hummingbird. After prying out the eyes of…

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