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The Bridegroom Was a DogMasterfully turning the rules of folklore and fable on their head, The Bridegroom Was a Dog is a disarming and unforgettable modern classic. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, which praised it as a fast moving, mysteriously compelling tale that has the dream quality of Kafka. The Bridegroom Was a Dog begins with a schoolteacher telling a fable to her students. In the fable, a princess promises her hand in marriage

Erica Cardwell finds herself in New York City

enmeshed in a semiaffair with a younger

a practice that eventually propagated fiction both entirely imagined and strangely true

and the carefully balanced elements of her life begin to spin out of control

and “hysterical” lives through visual culture and performance

All she has to do is get help from her con-artist cousin to keep up the ruse and somehow manage to stop her father from believing his wife has returned from the grave

this is the kind of career break he desperately needs

An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamour of Clarice Lispector and the viscerality of Han Kang

Hardcover | Age 2-8 | 40 pages | 6

Fifty years ago

From the internationally celebrated author of The Employees and My Work comes an extraordinary

she now spends her days shaping light itself

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