Francie a huit ans quand la dépression de sa mère, Elaine, vient bouleverser à jamais son existence. Recueillie par son oncle et sa tante, Francie grandit entourée d'affection auprès de sa cousine Vicky. Malgré tout, elle vit une jeunesse singulière, détachée du réel, habitée par la peur de la folie...
Le jour de ses neuf ans, Rose Edelstein mord avec délice dans le gâteau au citron préparé pour l'occasion. S'ensuit une incroyable révélation : elle ressent précisément la contrariété et le mal-être éprouvés par sa mère lorsqu'elle préparait la pâtisserie. Car, chez les Edelstein, chacun dispose d'u...
When Mona Gray is ten her father contracts a mysterious illness. His gradual withdrawal from everyday life marks a similar change in Mona, who removes herself from anything - or anyone - that might bring her happiness. Numbers provide a kind of solace, and help her make sense of the world: she count...
Discovering in childhood a supernatural ability to taste the emotions of others in their cooking, Rose Edelstein grows up to regard food as a curse when it reveals everyone's secret realities. By the Pushcart-winning author of <IT>An Invisible Sign of My Own<RO>. Reprint. A best-selling ...
In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made of fire and another has one made of ice. T...
In Willful Creatures Aimee Bender takes us on a journey to a fantastical world in which authentic love blossoms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a family of pumpkin heads embrace their ironhead son and potato-children dotingly follow their mother around as she completes ...
The New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with a wonderful collection of enchanting, strange and magical stories. In this collection, Bender's unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching fo...
A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month Selection The old man and the old woman always dreamed the same dreams. Everyone in Celias town knows the couple, married sixty years, with wrinkled skin down to their wrists--but one summer, while Celia takes care of her father, refusing to join her mother on the ...
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A grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows a strange man home, seeking total sexual abandon: He only wants to watch game shows. A woman falls in love with a hunchback; when his deformity turns out to be a pro...
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Aimee Benders stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise. Mona Gray was ten when her father contracted a mysterious illness and she became a quitter, abandonin...
In Willful Creatures Aimee Bender takes us on a journey to a fantastical world in which authentic love blossoms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a family of pumpkin heads embrace their ironhead son and potato-children dotingly follow their mother around as she completes ...
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