The Color Master
Aimee Bender
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
<p><b>The bestselling author of <i>The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</i> returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.</b><br><br>Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is "moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange" (<i>People</i>), "richly imagined and bittersweet" (<i>Vanity Fair</i>), and "full of provocative ideas" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>). In her deft hands, "relationships and mundane activities take on mythic qualities" (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>).<br><br>In this collection, Bender's unique talents sparkle brilliantly in stories about people searching for connection through love, sex, and family--while navigating the often painful realities of their lives. A traumatic event unfolds when a girl with flowing hair of golden wheat appears in an apple orchard, where a group of people await her. A woman plays out a prostitution fantasy with her husband and finds...</p>