Boy into Panther and Other Stories

Fiction. "Writing in heightened, magical prose reminiscent of Marquez and Toni Morrison, Margaret Benbow has produced the liveliest collection of tales you're likely to read this year, or in any year. BOY INTO PANTHER is bursting with incident and populated with an incredible cast of artists, priests, tailors, gypsies, new immigrants, cuckolded mushroom-hunters, and grieving widows-people of sorrow and persistence, all of them fighting for love, or lacking that, a scrap of dignity."—Lin Enger