Sights and Places
The main setting of the text and the capital of the Czech Republic.
What is Prague?
The Greek word for Grandfather.
What is Pappou?
"One look at you, and the crooks won’t bother to waste their time." (King 51)
Who is Eugene?
Czech artist and sculptor who created the Prague's crawling babies and the statues peeing on the country.
Who is David Cerny?
Mimi and Bird's detour, where they came face to face with the refugee problem in the Czech Republic.
What is Budapest?
Czech food Mimi seemed interested in that looks like dry bread
What is trdelnik?
"They make a mistake, . . . , and she could wind up in a coma." (King 142)
Who is Kitty?
A famous Spanish artist who once lived in the Nice area of France who Mimi thought could have gotten the Crow bundle and painted Goat and La Joie de Vivre.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
The beautiful French city that Mimi and Bird visited to look for the Crow Bundle.
What is Nice?
One of Oz's suggestions for Bird where the gold miners used to live with a VERY SPECIFIC SEMI-GOLD statue.
What is zlata ulicka or Golden Lane?
"You call that stuff toilet paper? They saw you coming." (King 74)
Who is Chip
An Indigenous boy who died running away from a residential school.
Who is Chanie Wenjack?
The city where Bird and Mimi live.
What is Guelph?
The Czech word for honeydew.
What is medovnik?
"How about we talk about something happy?" (King 86)
This demon can be a bit of a downer without their other half.
Who did Didi?
This famous novelist, known for his strange plots and tragic relationship with his father, was born in Prague.
Who is Franz Kafka?
The small Greek village where Bird's family came from.
What is Maletiani?
The Czech term for poppy seed cake.
What is makovy kolacek?
"We should have stayed home" (King 51)
This demon tends to lose all hope and panic without their sibling.
Who is Desi?
This clockmaker was blinded after building a masterpiece for Prague to ensure he would never make another so beautiful and then sabotaged his own work.
Who is Jan Sindel?