The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories

An inspired dance on the narrow and exhilarating cliff-edge of art.-THE WASHINGTON POST BOK WORLDEM M A D O N O G H U E, celebrated author of Slammerkin, vividlyanimates hidden scraps of the past in this remarkable collection. Anengraving of a woman giving birth to rabbits, a plague ballad, theologicalpamphlets, and an articulated skeleton are ingeniously fleshed outinto rollicking tales. Whether she's spinning the tale of a soldier trickedinto marrying a dowdy spinster, or a Victorian surgeon's attempts toimprove women, Donoghue fills us with the sights and smells of theperiod as she summons the ghosts of ordinary people, bringing them tounforgettable life in fiction. Sprightly prose. Transcends the usual limitations of historical fiction.-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOK REVIEWRemarkably vivid, inventive scenes give life to each storyand make the collection absorbing. -THE VILAGE VOICEEarthy, exhilarating tales. -ELE A SELECTION OF THE BOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUBAND THE QUALITY PAPERBACK BOK CLUB EMA DONOGHUE, born in 1969, is an Irish novelist, playwright, and historian who lives in Canada. Her novelSlammerkin was named a notable book of the year by the NewYork Times and the Washington Post.…