Willful Creatures -- Aimee Bender, Paperback

"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review

Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love blooms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a woman's children are potatoes, and a little boy with an iron for a head is born to a family of pumpkin heads. With her singular mix of surrealism, musical prose, and keenly felt emotion, Bender once again proves herself to be a masterful chronicler of the human condition.

Author: Aimee Bender
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/08/2006
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780385720977

Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 09/15/2006 pg. 80
New York Times 09/24/2006 pg. 28

About the Author

Aimee Bender is the author of the novels The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake--a New York Times bestseller--and An Invisible Sign of My Own, and of the collections The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Willful Creatures. Her works have been widely anthologized and have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in Los Angeles.