IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS Advance Reading Copies

On Tuesday afternoon, the UPS truck pulled up to my house with a delivery I'd been anticipating with bated breath: advance reading copies (ARCs) of In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Here's a view of the front cover and the spine: 


The back cover is lovely, but I had just seen a sample of the full hardcover book jacket just hours before receiving the ARCs, and I have to say the final version is so much more jaw-droppingly stunning that I'm not going to even share a photo of the ARC's back cove...