Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories

Jincy Willett is the high priestess of dark comedy. The classic stories in this collection cut through every convention every idea of normalcy with empathy and fearless wit undermining all the old ideas about the happy family the good son the dutiful mother. In Willetts world perversity and tenderness walk hand in hand; theres laughter and funerals ambivalence in the nursery and redemption for the wicked. As David Sedaris writes in his foreword Im prepared to wear a sandwich board for this book. I cant help myself. It just too good.