Amy Tan's bird obsession led to a new book — and keeping mealworms in her fridge

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"Every single bird in the book is from my backyard. Every bird that I've drawn is a bird that looked at me. I only write about the birds in my backyard. And that was just a decision I made for myself that I would make this very personal".