This is a novel about family strife over an inheritance. True, the inheritance is an ostrich farm in the Mojave Desert, and the heiress categorically does not want to devote her life to raising these two-meter-tall, stupid birds. But something is holding Tallulah back from selling the ranch. And after she learns of her relatives' plans for the family business, the girl has no choice but to pull her head out of the sand and face the troublesome inheritance: the truth about her grandmother's death, her mother's alcoholism, her uncle's greedy wrath, and one hundred and forty-two ostriches, whose fate is now in her hands.

A gripping, touching, and cinematic story that blends humor, drama, love, and, of course, a whole flock of huge, strange birds!