Get Surreal

"The hunchback took in the pregnant girl to hide her from high school until the baby popped out." Author Aimee Bender certainly knows how to get your attention. In her short story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, each story begins with an irreverent statement designed to keep you reading. Bender neatly twists a phrase, bends a meaning, and bam

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