A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world-and imagination-knows no boundaries.
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Budnitz is also the author of the novel If I Told You Once, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in the United States and was short-listed for the Orange Prize in the United Kingdom.
Flying Leap was a New York Times Notable Book in 1998.
Henry Award.
About the Author: Judy Budnitz\'s stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper\'s Magazine, Story, The Paris Review, The Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Fence, and Mc Sweeney\'s, and she is the recipient of an O.
From the Hardcover edition. soil to a "Nice big American baby." Magical, poignant, often transcendent, these are virtuoso modern fables that mine our stores of hidden urges, misunderstandings, and blind passions, inviting us on a voyage through places and times at once deeply familiar and wondrously strange.
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And in "Where We Come From," a pregnant woman\'s many failed attempts to cross the border do not lessen her resolve to give birth on U. "Preparedness"-an Orwellian tale in Technicolor-imagines rapture in the wake of imminent apocalypse. "Nadia" sounds the depths of a young woman\'s complex feelings toward a friend\'s mail-order bride from Eastern Europe.
In "Elephant and Boy," a surrogate mother-and-son bond, tinged with the erotic, is formed when a philanthropist attempts to "civilize" a young elephant handler.
In "Flush," a mammogram prompts a dark comedy of blurred identities between a mother and her two adult daughters. funny, dark, adventurous, slanted, and enchanted." These twelve astonishingly inventive stories-which take us into the heart of America and around the globe, from suburban backyards and swimming pools to war-torn streets and fallout shelters-are riveting, seductive, and impossible to forget. . .
Tremendous . "I don\'t know what planet Judy Budnitz comes from," said Newsweek on the publication of her fiction debut, Flying Leap, "but I\'m happy to have her.
A blazingly original, profoundly moving new work of fiction by a writer whose world-and imagination-knows no boundaries
