In Delicate Edible Birds, she fulfils that promise.ĭelicate Edible Birds includes nine stories of vastly different styles and structures. Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. Dazzlingly original and confident, Delicate Edible Birds further solidifies Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FATES AND FURIES Overall, these stories announce a notable new literary master. And mastery is a theme-Groff's women swim and baton twirl, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom. Some of the love has depths, which are understood too late some of the love is shallow, and also understood too late. Love troubles recur they're in every story-love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Crime is a motif-sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime-or several lifetimes. In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In "Lucky Chow Fun," Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town. In "Delicate Edible Birds," a group of war correspondents-a lone, high-spirited woman among them-falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. from last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back. In "Blythe," 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 "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth-century American woman. From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel Fates and Furies, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in years.
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