Delicate Edible Birds Av Lauren Groff

<p><b>FROM THE <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF <i>FATES AND FURIES</i></b><br><br>Lauren Groff''s critically acclaimed <i>The Monsters of Templeton</i> 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 <i>Delicate Edible Birds</i>, she fulfils that promise.<br><br><i>Delicate Edible Birds</i> 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 <i>Delicate Edible Birds</i> 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.<br><br>With a dazzling array of