Gayl Jones, who was first edited by Toni Morrison, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century and was recently a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

Opening with the novella, Butter, this collection of short fiction displays Gayl Jones’s legendary talents in a range of settings and styles, from the hyper-realist to the mystical.

Her narrators are women and men, Black, brown, indigenous; her settings are historical and contemporary, in South America, Mexico and the US; her themes centre on complex identities and unorthodox longings and aspirations. She writes about spies, playground designers, cartoonists, and baristas, about workers and revolutionaries, about environmentalism, feminism, poetry, film and love - but above all about our multicultural society in all its facets.