โ Scribed by Lauren Groff
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From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel The Monsters of Templeton, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in recent years. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. In โSir Fleeting,โ a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In โBlythe,โ an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In โThe Wife of the Dictator,โ that eponymous wife (โbrought back . . . from [the dictatorโs] last visit to Americaโ) grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In โDelicate Edible Birds,โ a group of war correspondentsโa lone, high-spirited woman among themโfalls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French...
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