Willful Creatures - Softcover

"[Bender] is Hemingway on an acid trip; her choices are twisted, both ethereal and surprisingly weighty. . . . Terrifyingly lovely." -Los Angeles Times "New, exciting, harsh, rugged and unyielding. . . . Every sentence in [Willful Creatures] is a fresh surprise." -The Washington Post"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." -The New York Times Book Review "These are stories that you'll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. You'll re-read them just for their beauty." -The Denver Post "To curl up with an Aimee Bender story is to thank heaven you ever learned to read in the first place. . . . What a treat to spend 15 stories in Bender's vast and wonderfully unhinged imagination." -Entertainment Weekly Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." -The New York Times Book Review "These are stories that you'll read with a sense of discovery and wonder. You'll re-read them just for their beauty." -The Denver Post "I am a long-standing, passionate fan of Aimee Bender's stories. Her images explode, her words ignite. Watching her imagination catch fire remains a sustaining joy in my readerly life."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

A new collection of all original stories by the author of An Invisible Sign of My Own and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt presents new tales of love, heartbreak, sex, adversity, and potato babies. Reprint.