Willful Creatures: Stories
Author: Aimee Bender
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 hers….Read More
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