The novel is narrated first by Boy, then by the precocious and sharp-tongued Bird, and then again by Boy -- who, in reflecting on the state of black-white relations in the 1960s, says, "It's not whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness".
Young gallinaceous birds (except those of the hoatzin) are extremely precocious, walking and feeding within a few hours of hatching.
She must have been a terrifyingly precocious child – growing up in her Camberley eyrie, obsessed by birds of prey from the age of eight.
Felix, the hero of Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas's "Bird in the Hand," was once a lonely, gay, precocious Cuban-American teenager, ready to reject the world before it could reject him.
(Catherine Rampell) 'Bird in the Hand' (closes on Sunday) Felix was once a lonely, gay, precocious Cuban-American teenager, ready to reject the world before it could reject him.
He was extraordinarily precocious.
Family with precocious kids.
Mr. Hitchens was precocious.
