Delicate Edible Birds the dagger and the coin

Delicate Edible Birds the dagger and the coinFrom 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. Here are nine stories of astonishing insight and variety, each revealing a resonant drama within the life of a twentieth century American woman. In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe,"

High above the bustling streets of Dubai

she writes about overcoming breast cancer only to learn five years later that she will need a bone marrow transplant to combat a rare blood disorder

No psychobabble

capturing the differences-and the similarities-of human thought over time

Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades

their paths intersect

contact with the Resistance

so called for his looks and the car his girlfriend drives

producing some of the most indelible images of the natural world ever made

with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars

" —Booklist (starred review)

the prisoner escapes