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Willful Creatures

Aimee Bender

2005224 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2005
first published
  • 2009Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9780307493255
  • 2013Penguin Random House · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780099558859
  • 2013Penguin Random House · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9781448136049
  • 2005Doubleday · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780385501132
  • 2006Anchor · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780385720977

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.From the Hardcover edition.

How it feels

AtmosphereBleak

How it reads

CommitmentQuick escape

When and where

Reading situationCommuteWaiting
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