But it turned out that my mother was right about the bug. She was several days too early, and mine had not been crawling, but there would end up being a bug in me after all, just a few days after she
A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband in 'The Red Ribbon' and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre in 'The Devouring' and struggles to decide
A volume of tales by the best-selling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake features characters who pursue connections through love, sex and family, including a golden-haired girl who appears
A volume of tales by the best-selling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake features characters who pursue connections through love, sex and family, including a golden-haired girl who appears
In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. These stories of men and women whose lives are shaped and sometimes twisted by the power of extr
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the slice
The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the peri
Aimee Bender’s 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.Mo
