Willful Creatures: Stories
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Books › Fiction › Short Stories (single author)
ISBN: 0385501137 / Publisher: Doubleday, August 2005
A collection of all original stories presents tales of love, heartbreak, sex, adversity, and potato babies.
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Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman’s children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.
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