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Doubleday
August 2013
On Sale: August 13, 2013
240 pages
ISBN: 0385534892
EAN: 9780385534895
Kindle: B00BH0VSQ2
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Contemporary | Fiction
The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of
Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy,
strange, and magical stories.
Truly beloved by
readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as
something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving,
fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly
imagined and bittersweet” (Vanity Fair), and “full of
provocative ideas” (The Boston Globe). In her deft
hands, “relationships and mundane activities take on mythic
qualities” (The Wall Street Journal).
In this
collection, Bender’s unique talents sparkle brilliantly in
stories about people searching for connection through love,
sex, and family—while navigating the often painful realities
of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with
flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard,
where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a
prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds she cannot
go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre
and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he
mistakenly eats their children. Two sisters travel deep into
Malaysia, where one learns the art of mending tigers who
have been ripped to shreds.
In these deeply resonant
stories—evocative, funny, beautiful, and sad—we see
ourselves reflected as if in a funhouse mirror. Aimee Bender
has once again proven herself to be among the most
imaginative, exciting, and intelligent writers of our time.
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