FROM THENEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OFFATES AND FURIES

Lauren Groff's critically acclaimedThe Monsters of Templetonwas shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Award for New Writers 2008, and critics hailed her as an enormous talent and a writer to watch. InDelicate Edible Birds, she fulfils that promise.

Delicate Edible Birdsincludes 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 ofDelicate Edible Birdsis 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 Birdswill cement Lauren Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.

Lauren Groff is the author of threeNew York Timesbestselling novels Fates and Furies(named by Barack Obama as his favourite book of 2015),The Monsters of TempletonandArcadia as well as the story collectionDelicate Edible Birds. She graduated from Amherst College and has an MFA in fiction from the University of WisconsinMadison. Groffs fiction has won the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Award, among others, and has been shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize. In 2017, she was named one ofGrantas Best of Young American Novelists. Her stories have appeared in publications includingThe New Yorker, theAtlantic,One StoryandPloughshares, and in several of the annualTheBest New American Storiesanthologies. She lives in Gainesville, Florida, with her husband and two sons.

A triumphant collection of literary short stories from the author of the New York Times bestselling The Monsters of Templeton.>