When Jonah meets Julia, you can be sure no one retains his or her sanity in A Thing with Feathers. Fictional autobiography, based on a true story, A Thing with Feathers is an intensely funny, and at the same time, deeply tragic “no-dry-eye-tear-jerker” contemporary love story/psychological thriller, set in a public law library in Northern Virginia in the 2005-6 timeframe, that masterfully merges the lives of American Romantic Poets, Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson, with the lives of its modern hero and heroine, Jonah and Julia, in a tale of passion, love, intrigue, and betrayal, never before evinced or known.