______________________________________LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD'[A] compact surrealist memory box of a novel .
A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband in 'The Red Ribbon' and finds she cannot go back to her old sex life. An ugly woman marries an ogre in 'The Devouring' and struggles to decide if she should stay with him after he mistakenly eats their children.
When Mona Gray is ten, her father contracts a mysterious illness. When she becomes a maths teacher, Mona delights her pupils by encouraging them to find objects that take the form of numbers.
_______________________________On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice.
In The Girl in the Flammable Skirt Aimee Bender has created a world where nothing is quite as it seems. 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.
In Willful Creatures Aimee Bender takes us on a journey to a fantastical world in which authentic love blossoms.