Flying Leap Stories [Paperback]

These shocking, brilliant, and ultimately beautiful stories chronicle the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Each tale is laced with enough wit, humor, and imagination to keep the reader constantly amazed. From the young son persuaded to donate his heart to his dying mother, to the girl who befriends a man in a dog suit in post-apocolyptic suburbia, to the man and woman conducting a love affair across a park bench, these characters delight and dazzle.

Judy Budnitzgrew up in Atlanta and attended Harvard University. She was a fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and received her MFA from New York University. Her stories have appeared inStory,The Paris Review,Glimmer Train,and the anthology25 and Under. She lives in New York City.

Flying Leapis a tremendous debut -- funny, dark, weird, adventurous, slanted, and enchanted. Newsweek

Budnitz reveals a bionic ear for clever dialogue and a picturesque writing style with a fearless tone that rarely wavers, no matter how quirky the conceit. The New York Times Book Review