"Mesmerizing and magical. . . . A stunning book." -- NPR.org "Short stories so imaginative -- and yet so perplexingly familiar -- they could have formed in a dream. . . . Taut, meticulously balanced and written in Loory's direct, witty prose, his own stories take a page from Aesop: high-flying tales nonetheless boiled down to the essentials." -- The Los Angeles Times "Ben Loory's stories are little gifts, strange and moving and wonderfully human...