Tender Morsels

by Margo Lanagan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $5.88

  Fifteen-year-old Liga, emotionally and physically battered from bearing two children, one begot through incest, the other through rape, is magically granted her own heaven, a gentle, patient version of the rough world she once knew. Here there are no brutal fathers, no leering village boys; there is only a beautiful little cottage in the middle of a wood. Here she brings up her two daughters, fair Branza and dark Urdda, in perfect peace. But the membrane between Liga's heaven and the real world has grown thin over the years, allowing some who are not as pure-hearted as Liga and her daughters to enter. And likewise, the girls discover they can pass through into the real world of Liga's tortured past. Now, having known heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side? Tender Morsels is an astonishing novel, fraught with the tension between beauty and horror, violence and tenderness.

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $15.97

• Used

  Hardcover
  2009

  $5.88

  Liga endures unspeakable cruelties at the hands of her father, before being magically granted her own personal heaven, a safe haven from the real world. She raises her two daughters in this alternate reality, and they grow up protected from the violence that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever ...Magicked men and wild bears break down the borders of Liga's refuge. Now, having known Heaven, how will these three women survive in a world where beauty and brutality lie side by side?

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  Paperback
  2010

  $17.73