Both Uses of
fledgling
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- I'm not some fledgling you discovered on the lawn.†
p. 4.9
- Sometimes in the evening he glimpsed, for the briefest instant, the woman he had married: Norah, standing with Paul as an infant in her arms; Norah, her lips stained with berries, tying on an apron; Norah as a fledgling travel agent, staying up late to balance her accounts.†
p. 258.7 *
Definition:
new, inexperienced, or just beginning to develop
or:
a young bird that has recently grown flight feathers (has fledged)
or:
a young bird that has recently grown flight feathers (has fledged)