pbFrom the acclaimed, award-winning author ofi Present Tense Machinei and iKnotsi, a collection of playfully surreal stories about love, death, and metamorphosis.b pIn iEvil Flowersi, a precise but madcap collection of short stories, Gunnhild yehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange, startling brilliance of everyday life. pIn her new collection, yehaug renovates the form again and again, confirming Lydia Davis's observation that her every story is a formal surprise, smart and droll. These tales converse with, contradict, and expand on one another birds, slime eels, and wild beasts reappear, gnawing at the fringes. A fairly large part of a woman's brain slips into the toilet bowl, removing her ability to remember or recognize species of birds particularly problematic because she is an ornithologist. Medicinal leeches ingest information through fiberoptic cables, and a new museum sinks into the ground. pInspired by Charles Baudelaire, a dreamer and romantic