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."
Promotion info
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.
Reviews
"A mix of modern fairy tales from the LA-based author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake ... Bender is a bold writer; her stories unpredictable and exciting." Red, Book of the Month "Aimee Bender spins the surreal wheel of human experiences and comes up with the enchanting story collection The Color Master." Vanity Fair
Author description
Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a New York Times bestseller, and An Invisible Sign of My Own; and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles
