In her first volume of erotic writings, Delta of Venus, Anais Nin explored the nature of female sexuality. Little Birds is broader in its scope, glipsy in dream-like fashion the subtle or explicit means by which men and women are aroused.

Each of the thirteen vignettes captures a moment of sexual awakening, recognition or fulfilment. Lust, obsession, fantasy and desire emerge as part of the human condition, as pure or as comlex as any other of its aspects.