Lara Ehrlich

A short story collection about women's transformations from girls into wives, mothers, and monsters '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 idealised alternative. The fifteen stories of Animal Wife are unified by girls...

The poetic prose mixed with the intense subject matter creates an undertow that will pull readers in. Booklist A modern-day fairy tale that is both ghastly and beautiful. Kirkus Mother and daughter mermaids navigate starting over and finding their place in the world in Lara Ehrlich's debut novel. The youngest siren sister, Ceto, is weary of an existence driven by...