In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks, said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative.
The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are unified by girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from their own minds.
A girl born with feathers undertakes a.
Red Hen Press Animal wife, paperback/lara ehrlich
