About the book

The story centers on an eight-year-old girl with a supernatural ability located in her right index finger. When she becomes consumed by flashes of red-hot anger, she loses control of this power, which physically transforms the target of her rage. After her neighbors, the Gregg family, refuse to stop hunting local waterfowl, she aims her finger at them. The Greggs wake up the next morning to find they have sprouted wings and shrunk to the size of birds, while the ducks they intended to shoot have grown human arms and taken over the family home.

Readers looking for a short morality tale find a narrative that forces a literal change in perspective. Children engage with the story to see bullies and hunters experience the same vulnerability they inflict on others. The book provides a concrete illustration of empathy by putting characters into the bodies of their prey. Readers finish the story with a clear understanding of the consequences of thoughtless behavior and the idea that justice involves experiencing the world from a different point of view.

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