Delicate Edible Birds - And Other Stories

From 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, " an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator, " that eponymous wife ("brought back .