Well this was a surprisingly delightful little book. Mr. Malik is a “short, round, balding brown man”–a sixty-something widower with a comb-over.  After his wife’s death, on his doctor’s advice, he picked up a hobby: birds.  Every Tuesday morning, he joins the East African Ornithological Society bird walk,  led by Rose Mbikwa, Scottish widow of a Nairobi politician.  Mr. Malik most definitely has a (quiet) crush on Ms. Mbikwa. One Tuesday, the showy and good-looking Harry Khan, Mr. Malik’s former classmate, shows up at the bird walk. […]