This book is small but intense. Some sort of creatures have infiltrated the world and if anyone including animals look at them they become insane due to not understanding or being familiar with the form of life. So people walk around with blindfolds on, as long as no one sees them they're ok. They also affect wild animals, birds and dogs etc. Very edge of the seat type story. Not a murder mystery at all but interesting nonetheless.
The title comes form a box of birds that squawk if anyone comes near the doorway so they're kept there as a warning sign.
One mix up at the end is that a dog, Victor, was locked in a room by his owner and the main character Malori lets it out then you never hear about the dog again. Meanwhile she's pregnant and another pregnant person, Olympia enters their home along with someone who is insane (Gary) and can't get any insaner when he sees the aliens. So he thinks that strictly by belief people kill themselves, like a mass hallucination. But when people do see the aliens they either kill others and then themselves or only themselves.
So Malori raises the 2 nameless children alone for a few years but Tom, one of the original people who helped her in the beginning phones every number in a phone book and leaves a message for someone several miles away who contacts Malori and she decides after 4 years alone to move there and see what kind of living arrangements are there. Most of the middle age children are blind by choice but the new guy Rick says they don't do that anymore. No creatures can enter their village or whatever it is. They are self sufficient. So now Malori lives happily ever after with 2 kids. Where is the dog Victor? I want to know!!
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