"Stories, poems, prose poems, fables, and flash fiction in three parts: Unlucky Lucky Days, Unlucky Lucky People, and Unlucky Lucky Books"--Provided by publisher.
Inventive, disconcerting, and hilarious, Daniel Grandbois's present-day fables call to mind Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories as readily as they do Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, Rikki Ducornet's Butcher's Tales, and Woody Allen's most literary writings. He dredges up impossible meanings from the mineral and plant kingdoms, as well as the animal, and serves them to us as if they were nothing more fantastic than a plate of eggs and ham.