Un executiu entra en una botiga d'nimals i es compra una gàbia amb un home petit a dins; un nen neix amb claus en lloc de dits i descobreix que obren portes; una dona lluita contra set patates que se li fiquen a casa com orfes que busquessin...
The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon C ake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world
The New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake a Richard and Judy bookclub pick returns with a wonderful collection of enchanting strange and magical stories.
In Willful Creatures Aimee Bender takes us on a journey to a fantastical world in which authentic love blossoms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero a family of pumpkin heads embrace their ironhead son and potato-children dotingly...
When Mona Gray is ten her father contracts a mysterious illness. His gradual withdrawal from everyday life marks a similar change in Mona who removes herself from anything - or anyone - that might bring her happiness. Numbers provide a kind of solace and...
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 motherâs emotions in the slice. To her horror, she finds that...