Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

"A new collection from an acclaimed author weaves together the real and unreal, fairy tale, sci-fi, and myth"--

From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatship girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories, for Díaz, have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."