A triumphant collection of literary short stories from the author of the New York Times bestselling The Monsters of Templeton.
Lauren Groff is a three-time National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix, and two short story collections, Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. She has won The Story Prize and been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work regularly appears in the New Yorker, the Atlantic and elsewhere, and she was named one of Granta's 2017 Best Young American Novelists.
...begins with a story set in the sort of mythical small town of
plenty that Krasikov's characters might dream of...Here Groff peers
behind the white picket fence to reveal a nastier underside; other
stories take in World War II, and transpose the tale of Heloise And
Abelard to New York in 1918.
*Metro*
Groff's first collection of stories, Delicate Edible Birds,
demonstrates the often surprising ways that quality can bear fruit.
Bringing together nine stories, it moves almost effortlessly
through different locales, from Templeton to Argentina, post-first
world war New York to contemporary America ... in her strongest
writing, Groff echoes the magic of her gothic forebears
*Financial Times*
Delicate Edible Birds is wonderfully imaginative, subtle and
precise, brimming over with brave and fascinating women... A
dazzling collection to make all those readers who are wary of short
stories think again.
*New Books*
...begins with a story set in the sort of mythical small town of
plenty that Krasikov's characters might dream of...Here Groff peers
behind the white picket fence to reveal a nastier underside; other
stories take in World War II, and transpose the tale of Heloise And
Abelard to New York in 1918. * Metro *
Groff's first collection of stories, Delicate Edible Birds,
demonstrates the often surprising ways that quality can bear fruit.
Bringing together nine stories, it moves almost effortlessly
through different locales, from Templeton to Argentina, post-first
world war New York to contemporary America ... in her strongest
writing, Groff echoes the magic of her gothic forebears * Financial
Times *
Delicate Edible Birds is wonderfully imaginative, subtle and
precise, brimming over with brave and fascinating women... A
dazzling collection to make all those readers who are wary of short
stories think again. * New Books *
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