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In a world presented as God's first draft, Mira studies art criticism, falls for a woman named Annie, and after her father dies finds that her spirit has passed into a leaf, alongside his.
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Death Valley
With her father in intensive care after an accident, a novelist from Los Angeles checks into a Best Western in Death Valley to hike alone, and the desert begins to open up in ways she cannot explain.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.
The Plains
A young filmmaker travels to the plains of inland Australia, where the landowners keep artists and scholars, and spends years failing to make his film.
How Should a Person Be?
A young woman in Toronto tries to figure out how to live by imitating her friends, making art, and asking the title question with increasing desperation.
How to Be Both
Two linked stories, of a Renaissance painter in Ferrara and of a grieving teenage girl in present-day Cambridge, can be read in either order, and both ask how we see and who we become.
Women Without Men
In Tehran in the summer of 1953, five women of different classes, each escaping something, end up together in a garden in the town of Karaj.
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Stories featuring old vampires who quench their thirst with lemons in an Italian grove, seagulls that steal things from a boy's future, American presidents reincarnated as horses and girls in a Japanese silk mill turning into silkworms.
House of Day, House of Night
A woman settles in a village in the Sudeten mountains on the Polish-Czech border and gathers the stories of her neighbours, its saints and its dead.
Parakeet
The week before her wedding, a woman known as the Bride is visited by her dead grandmother in the form of a parakeet, who tells her to find the estranged brother she has not seen in years.
Killing Commendatore
A portrait painter in a rural Japanese valley discovers a hidden painting and a mysterious pit, and both lead him towards a vanished man and the nature of inspiration.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Debut stories populated by werewolf-girl boarding schools, Minotaur cowboys, and sleep-disordered children in Florida swamps.
Invisible Cities
Marco Polo describes fifty-five impossible cities to Kublai Khan, and each city is a meditation on memory, desire, language, and death.