Wander, Wonder, Write

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Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion … A girl changes into a fox in self-defense. An idealist imagines what her new leader should look like, using her pets as reference. Guerrilla gardeners at dawn are sowing life-saving hope. A traveler delights in tasting European chefs. And a cruel ritual for teenage women turns into a revolution.  The fifty stories in this collection transport the reader from an Amsterdam canal to the Oaxacan coast, from a silt-streaked Venice to an imaginary world, from an Icelandic waterfall to a hall of mirrors.  Women play roles to find themselves, resi | Claire Polders is a Dutch author of six books and 100+ essays, stories, and book reviews . Together with her American husband , she wrote a historical novel for younger readers, A Whale in Paris (Simon & Schuster), and her short prose has been published by World Literature Today , Epoch , Tin House , and Electric Literature . Her flash fiction collection Woman of the Hour: Fifty Tales of Longing and Rebellion

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