The Brothers Grimm take lessons in fiction from Angela Carter to
produce this uncanny and surreal work. Judy Budnitz might just be
the most exciting and unusual literary figure to emerge from the US
literary thicket in 2000. She marries great technical skill to
quirky humour and dizzying metaphor. She has an uncanny knack for
the destabilizing and indelible image, but does not abandon sense
for sensibility. She is always readable, albeit strangely so. She
might yet be an Americanized heir to the throne left vacant by
Angela Carter. This collection of stories is strikingly surreal and
hugely entertaining. It will appeal to fans of everyone from Tibor
Fischer via Lorrie Moore to Nicholson Baker, or put another way,
from Heathers to Edward Scissorhands via Annie Hall. Among the
storylines: a young man is persuaded to donate his heart to his
dying mother; a girl comes of age in strange suburbia, her only
friend a man dressed in a dogsuit; a man and a woman conduct a
passionate love affair on a park bench.
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