In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made of fire and another has one made of ice. These stories of men and women whose lives are shaped and sometimes twisted by the power of extraordinary desires take us to a place far beyond the imagination.
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A fabulous collection of stories available in the UK for the first time from New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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AIMEE BENDER is the author of two novels, An Invisible Sign of My Own and the New York Times bestseller, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, and two collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her work has been widely anthologised and has been translated into ten languages. She lives in Los Angeles. Read more about Aimee Bender and her work at www.flammableskirt.com
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
'Each short story packs a heavy punch, and each should be savoured. From cleverly comic to starkly surreal, Bender's audacious characters surprise and delight. Sometimes, they even make you weep.'Boston Globe
In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. From a man suffering from reverse evolution to a lonely wife who waits for her husband to return from war; to a small town where one girl has a hand made of fire and the other has a hand made of ice. These stories of men and women whose lives are shaped and sometimes twisted by the power of extraordinary desires take us to a place far beyond the imagination.
'Many of the stories in Aimee Bender's insouciant first collection,The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, begin with a premise just on the fringe of the familiar, then give it a tantalizing twist Bender's stories are powered by voice by the pleasure of an electric smile and a restrained sauciness as catchy as that title, with a winning cheekiness.'New York Times Book Review
'Fierce and true Fantastic!'Los Angeles Times Book Review
'Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty.'Harper's Bazaar