Delicate Edible Birds: Lauren Groff

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.