The Wrong Heaven

<b>Blurring the line between reality and fantasy, Amy Bonnaffons's "outstanding, exciting" debut story collection plumbs the mysteries of female desire (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>).</b><br><i>Includes the story "Horse," as heard on</i> This American Life.<br>In the darkly magical realm of <i>The Wrong Heaven</i>, inanimate objects come to life, supernatural beings move among humans, and conflicted female characters seek answers to their sexual and spiritual dilemmas in all the wrong places. In "Horse," a woman considers transforming herself into an animal through a series of injections reminiscent of IVF. In "The Cleas," a young babysitter struggles to reconcile her feminist ideals with her confounding urges, while the dying protagonist of "Black Stones" finds herself strangely attracted to the angel of death.<br>As provocative as they are deeply affecting, these stories reckon with the inescapable confusion of living in a mortal body, laying bare the heart of our deepest longings while teasing out new possibilities for what fiction can do.