Book description
Lauren Groff's critically acclaimed The Monsters of Templeton
was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008,
and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. In
Delicate Edible Birds, she fulfils that promise.
Delicate Edible Birds includes nine stories of vastly
different styles and structures. 'L. De Bard and Aliette' recreates
the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu
epidemic; 'Lucky Chow Fun' returns to Templeton, the setting of
Groff's debut novel, for a contemporary account of what happens to
outsiders in a small, insular town; the title story of Delicate
Edible Birds is a harrowing, powerfully moving drama about a
group of war correspondents, a lone woman among them, who fall prey to
a frightening man in the French countryside while fleeing the Nazis.
With a dazzling array of voices and settings, Delicate Edible
Birds will cement Lauren Groff's reputation as one of the foremost
talents of her generation.
Lauren Groff was born in Cooperstown, New York. She has a BA from
Amherst College and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and
has won fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and Yaddo. Her debut
novel,
The Monsters of Templeton
, was a New York Times Bestseller and was shortlisted for the Orange
Broadband Award for New Writers 2008. She lives in Gainesville, Florida
and is at work on her second novel.
