Delicate Edible Birds - And Other Stories Condition:Like New grows up among petty thieves

grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'

When Sister Bear is given an important role in the school play

Can the mouselets help before it's too late

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a gay activist in homophobic Nigeria

Delicate Edible Birds - And Other Stories Condition:Like New grows up among petty thievesIn "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay at home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back . . . from [the dictator's] last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly