The Fool and Other Moral Tales

'I love the way Anne Serre's mind works, and her slyly seductive approach to narrative.' -Adam Mars-Jones; 'With its psychological reality infused with fabulism, Serre's fiction seems to have invented its own genre of literature. The Fool and Other Moral Tales is an impeccable collection.'-Ankita Chakraborty, New York Times; 'From the author of the brilliant novel The Governesses, comes another beguiling piece of art, this time a collection of three novellas exploring desire and morality.'-Three Percent; 'Drawing on fairy tales and psychoanalysis, pornography and poststructuralism, Serre constructs stunning and searing stories. Dreamy and deeply sexual.'-Publishers Weekly; 'Three wild novellas - each of these stories plumbs the depths of desire, morality, and our willingness to go on an unpredictable ride.'-Katie Yee, LitHub; 'Serre's collection speaks bravely, poignantly and perversely to the hazards of alienation - from one's self, from those around you - while also illuminating the blessings and curses, the gifts and sacrifices, of being called to dwell in the gauzy world of stories.' -John Biscello, Riot Material; Praise for The Governesses; 'Genuinely original - and, often, very quietly so. Seriously weird and seriously excellent...call it the anglerfish of literature.'-Parul Sehgal, The New York Times; 'Anne Serre's style is perfectly controlled. Colorful, by turns elegant and violent, it provokes that enchantment borne out of an unbridled imagination.'-Marie Claire; 'Hypnotic, enchanting.'-Publishers Weekly; 'Serre's language is tight and fabulist, a slim and sensuous fairy tale that reads like something born from an orgy between Charles Perrault, Shirley Jackson, and Angela Carter.'-Full Stop